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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 2, 1990Crawford County, Illinois

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1990, 6:25 PM CDT for Crawford County, Illinois. It was in force for 35 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: Jun 2, 1990, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1990, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Crawford 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
Jun 2, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Crawford, 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

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 230 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 305 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 337 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 12.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KEVV 022326
TOREVV
ILC033-030000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
625 PM CDT SAT JUN 2 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS
          ...CRAWFORD
 
AT 620 PM CDT TORNADOS WERE REPORTED 1 MILE WEST OF OBLONG ILLINOIS
AND ANOTHER ONE 3 MILES NORTH OF OBLONG...ABOUT 70 MILES NORTH OF
EVANSVILLE. THESE TORNADOS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THEY WILL
MOVE TO NEAR ROBINSON AND HUTSONVILLE ILLINOIS BY 640 PM CDT.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELbTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
BLOCK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Wayne	39 min
Jun 2, 5:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Clay, Richland	46 min
Jun 2, 6:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Jasper	49 min
Jun 2, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Lawrence, Wabash	42 min
Jun 2, 6:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Edwards, Wayne	31 min

Nearby

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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.