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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 25, 1989Macon County, Moultrie County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at May 25, 1989, 7:19 PM CDT for Macon County, Moultrie County, Illinois. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 1989, 7:19 PM CDT (00:19 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1989, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Lincoln, IL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Macon County, IL, Moultrie 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 123 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peoria Regional, IL at 00:00Z on 1989-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peoria Regional, IL at 00:00Z on 1989-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 122 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSPI 260019
TORSPI
ILC115-139-260045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL
719 PM CDT THU MAY 25 1989

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
      MACON...MOULTRIE

 AT 714 PM CDT A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT ONE
 MILE SOUTH OF WARRENSBURG IN MACON COUNTY. ANOTHER REPORTED BY
 THE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE A CONFIRMED TORNADO NEAR BOODY ILLINOIS
 IN SOUTHERN MACON COUNTY.

 THE TORNADOS WERE MOVING EAST A 40 MPH.

FUNNEL CLOUDS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLuE
OR NO ADVANCE WARNING...SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE
TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.

 ATTN ISP DIST...10
 HILLIARD

What 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, May 25, 3:11 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL
310 PM CDT THU MAY 25 1989

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SANGAMON COUNTY...

AT 3 05 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWS A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORM GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR BURLINGTON IOWA
TO DANVILLE ILLINOIS.

AT 256 PM CDT PEA-SIZE HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL WAS RECEIVED HERE
AT THE CAPITOL AIRPORT.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED THE THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
OFFICE IN SPRINGFIELD DURING THE PAST HOUR.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL
10 PM CDT.

HILLIARD

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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.