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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Nov 27, 1990, 2:48 PM CST for 4 counties in Illinois. It was in force for 27 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 27, 1990, 2:48 PM CST (20:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 27, 1990, 3:15 PM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bureau County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Putnam 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 27, 3:10 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Marshall, IL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 384 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 919 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 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 KPIA 272048
TORPIA
ILC011-175-155-123-272115-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
248 PM CST TUE NOV 27 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
SOUTHERN BUREAU...EASTERN STARK...WESTERN PUTNAM...
WESTERN MARSHALL
AT 2:455 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NORTH OF PRINCEVILLE
ON THE STARKE COUNTY LINE. A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED BY THE
PUBLIC IN THIS AREA.
ATTN ISP 8 17
JACOBSWhat 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, Nov 27, 9:10 AM CST, 5 hours 38 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-271600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 900 AM CST TUE NOV 27 1990 ...HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE AFFECTING WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS THIS MORNING... THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE BEEN MOVING OVER A GOOD PART OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS THE PAST COUPLE OF HOURS. RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF ONE AND A THIRD INCHES (1.33) HAS BEEN RECEIVED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN PEORIA BETWEEN 700 AND 900 AM. PEOPLE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...ESPECIALLY MOTORISTS...SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF RAPIDLY RISING CREEKS AND STREAMS THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON. THERE WILL ALSO BE AREAS OF STANDING WATER AND SOME MINOR STREET FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS A WATER COVERED OR FLOODED ROADWAY. MORE RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TODAY WITH SOME AREAS POSSIBLY RECEIVING IN EXCESS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL BY THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MILLER
Special weather statement, Nov 27, 9:11 AM CST, 5 hours 37 minutes before
ILZ009-10-271610 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 9 10 AM CST TUE NOV 27 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL AND WESTERN ILLINOIS... AT 905 AM CST WEATHER RADARS SHOWS A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDER- STORMS NORTH OF A LINE FROM 40 MILES NORTH OF ST LOUIS MISSOURI NEAR CARROLLTON ILLINOIS TO NEAR PONTIAC ILLINOIS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH MORGAN...MENARD... SANGAMON...CASS AND MACOUPIN COUNTIES BETWEEN NOW AND 1030 AM CST. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS..HAIL..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS CAUSING LOCAL FLOODING. HILLIARD
Special weather statement, Nov 27, 10:35 AM CST, 4 hours 13 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-271730-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
1030 AM CST TUE NOV 27 1990
...HEAVY RAIN AMOUNTS REPORTED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...
THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY SHOWERS HAVE DUMPED AROUND TWO INCHES OF RAIN ON
PARTS OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS THIS MORNING. STANDING WATER AND MINOR
STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN WOODFORD COUNTY ALONG ILLINOIS ROUTE 116
BETWEEN THE WOODFORD/TAZEWELL COUNTY LINE AND EUREKA. JUST UNDER TWO INCHES
OF RAIN (1.97 INCHES) WAS RECEIVED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SINCE
MIDNIGHT. THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS OF FLOODING IN PEORIA EXCEPT FOR ISOLATED
AREAS OF STANDING WATER AND SEWER BACKUPS. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS A FLOODED ROADWAY AND SHOULD BE ALERT TO RISING CREEKS OR STREAMS.
MORE RAINFALL...POSSIBLY HEAVY...IS IN THE FORECAST FOR LATE THIS MORNING AND
THIS AFTERNOON. PEOPLE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE
POSSIBILITY FOR FLOODING DUE TO THE ALREADY SATURATED GROUND.
MILLERSpecial weather statement, Nov 27, 11:21 AM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes before
ILZ009-10-271830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 1120 AM CST TUE NOV 27 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN ILLINOIS... AT 1115 AM CST WEATHER RADARS SHOWS A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDER- STORMS NORTH OF A LINE FROM JUST NORTH OF QUINCY TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF DECATUR THEN NORTHEAST TO NEAR KANKAKEE ILLINOIS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH PORTIONS OF EASTERN ILLINOIS FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS FROM SOUTH OF DECATUR TO NEAR HOOPESTON ILLINOIS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS..HAIL..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS CAUSING LOCAL FLOODING. HILLcIARD
Special weather statement, Nov 27, 12:59 PM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-271945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 1245 PM CST TUE NOV 27 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CST... AT 1240PM CST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF PEORIA TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF QUINCY ILLINOIS. THE AREA OF STORMS WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH. REMEMBER...VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. ALSO SCATTERED HEAVY RAINSHOWERS WERE IN A LINE FROM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PEORIA TO 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF PEORIA. MUNDY
Special weather statement, Nov 27, 1:59 PM CST, 49 minutes before
ILZ009-10-272100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 200 PM CST TUE NOV 27 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 7 PM CST FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 155 PM CST WEATHER RADARS SHOWS A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDER- STORMS WEST OF A LINE FROM NEAR BRADFORD ILLINOIS TO 20 MILE WEST OF SPRINGFIELD TO JUST NORTH OF VANDALIA ILLINOIS. THE HEAVY STORMS WERE NEAR BEARDSTOWN ILLINOIS AND IN SCHUYLER COUNTY. AT 1 53 PM CST BEARDSTOWN POLICE REPORTED 45 TO 50 MPH WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. THE STORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS..HAIL..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS CAUSING LOCAL FLOODING. HILVLIARD ATTN...DIST...9
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 27, 1:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Schuyler | 64 min |
| Nov 27, 3:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Tazewell, Woodford | 34 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.