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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Sep 8, 1989, 5:19 PM CDT for Champaign County, Vermilion County, Illinois. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 8, 1989, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1989, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 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
Peoria Regional, IL (KPIA), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 1787 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSPI 082219
TORSPI
ILC019-183-082300-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL
519 PM CDT FRI SEP 8 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
CHAMPAIGN...VERMILION
AT 510 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM FORMATION WITH
INDICATIONS OF TORNADOS AND FUNNEL CLOUDS EXTENDING FROM RANTOUL
TO THE EAST EDGE OF MAHOMET TO 5 MILES EAST OF CHAMPAIGN...URBANA
TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS.
THE THUNDERSTORM FORMATION WITH A HISTORY OF TORNADOS WAS MOVING
TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
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 D3IST 10
PALMERWhat 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, Sep 8, 1:02 PM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 105 PM CDT FRI SEP 8 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MOVING INTO CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 100 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM ROCKFORD SOUTH TO JUST WEST OF PEORIA TO QUINCY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS GROUND STROKES OF LIGHTNING. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. RECENT RAIN OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS HAS SATURATED THE GROUND. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE LOW-LAND FLOODING AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS...SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT. ATTN ISP DIST...7..8..14..17 J LAST
Special weather statement, Sep 8, 2:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 205 PM CDT FRI SEP 8 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 200 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM LASALLE ILLINOIS...50 MILES NORTHEAST OF PEORIA TO QUINCY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS GROUND STROKES OF LIGHTNING. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. AUGUSTA ILLINOIS...IN SOUTHEAST HANCOCK COUNTY...RECEIVED 1.53 INCHES OF RAIN IN ONE HOUR JUST AFTER NOON. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE AT PEORIA RECEIVED 0.25 INCHES OF RAIN IN 20 MINUTES...WITH HEAVY RAIN STILL FALLING. FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AREAS AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS IS LIKELY...SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT. J LAST
Special weather statement, Sep 8, 5:13 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 510PM CDT FRI SEP 8 1989 ...HEAVY RAINFALL OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AS OF 500PM...SPRINGFIELD'S CAPITAL AIRPORT HAD RECEIVED OVER 4 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE SEPTEMBER 1ST. THIS HAS SATURATED THE GROUND IN MANY AREAS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUING ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS...MISSOURI...AND IOWA. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR IN SOME... IF NOT MANY AREAS. RESIDENTS IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS...ESPECIALLY NEAR STREAMS AND RIVERS...SHOULD BEWARE OF HEAVY RAINS PASSING OVER THEIR AREA. IF STREAMS AND RIVERS ALREADY APPEAR THREATENING...ADDITIONAL RAINFALL COULD PRODUCE LEVELS OF WATER ABOVE FLOOD STAGE. THE NATIONAL WEAT0HER SERVICE IS MONITORING THE SITUATION AND WILL ISSUE FURTHER STATEMENTS IF NEEDED. WAGNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan, Macon | 35 min |
| Sep 8, 3:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Macon, Piatt | 37 min |
| Sep 8, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign, Piatt | 28 min |
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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.