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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 1989, 2:15 PM CDT for Champaign County, Vermilion County, Illinois. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 29, 1989, 2:15 PM CDT (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 1989, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Champaign County, IL, Vermilion County, IL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 322 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSPI 291915
TORSPI
ILC019-183-291945-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL
215 PM CDT TUE AUG 29 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN CHAMPAIGN...VERMILION
AT 207 PM CDT THE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE HAS CONFIRMED THE SIGHTING
OF FUNNEL CLOUDS ALOFT JUST EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF CHAMPAIGN-URBANA
ILLINOIS NEAR THE TOWN OF HOMER AND ODGEN ILLINOIS.
THE FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE MOVING EAST.
FUNNEL CLOUDS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE
OR NO ADVANCE WARNING...SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE
TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER
IF AVAILABLE...OTHERWISE TO A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING.
ATTN ISP DIST...10
HUGHESWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 1:16 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 115 PM CDT TUE AUG 29 1989 ...FUNNEL CLOUDS IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 102 PM CDT THE PUBLIC REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUDS ALOFT IN NORTHERN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY NEAR GIFFORD LLINOIS AND FLATVILLE ILLINOIS. AT 108 PM CDT THE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE WERE UNABLE TO CONFIRM THESE FUNNEL CLOUD SIGHTINGS. SINCE 1200 PM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING IN AN AREA FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF CHAMPAIGN URBANA ILLINOIS TO ABOUT 20 NORTHEAST OF CHAMPAIGN URBANA ILLINOIS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE BEING ACCOMPANIED BY VERY LOW HANGING CLOUDS AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE ATTENDED WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ...BRIEF STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINS. PERSONS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES THEIR AREA AND BE PREPARED TO GO TO HA SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY. HUGHES
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.