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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 16, 1990Knox County, Stark County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1990, 6:20 PM CDT for Knox County, Stark County, Illinois. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 16, 1990, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1990, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Lincoln, IL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Knox County, IL, Stark 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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 416 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1990-06-16Temperature 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1990-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 158 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1259 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
170 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 KPIA 162320
TORPIA
ILC095-175-162345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
620 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
      EXTREME NORTHEAST KNOX...

   IN THE CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
      STARK...

AT 615 PM CDT KNOX COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
NEAR VICTORIA IN EXTREME NORTHEAST KNOX COUNTY NEAR THE
INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAYS 180 AND 167. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT
30 MILES AN HOUR.

TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...WEST JERSEY AND
WYOMING IN STARK COUNTY.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS 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...7 AND 8

MILLER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXHancock48 min
Jun 16, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXBureau60 min
Jun 16, 6:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningILXHancock97 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Illinois, 1990Every tornado warning in 1990Tornadoes in 1990

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.