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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at May 14, 1991, 11:14 AM CDT for McLean County, Illinois. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1991, 11:14 AM CDT (16:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1991, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County McLean County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 381 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
- 64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -372 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1288 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 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 141614
TORPIA
ILC113-141715-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
1114 AM CDT TUE MAY 14 1991
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
MCLEAN
AT 11:05 AM... A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY STATE POLICE ABOUT
5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BLOOMINGTON IN MCLEAN COUNTY.
THE TORNADO WAS REPORTED TO BE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST WHICH WOULD
PUT THE TOWN OF DOWNS AND LEROY IN THE PATH OF THE STORM.
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.
A TORNADO WARNING IS ALSO IN EFFECT UNTIL 11:45 AM FOR TAZEWELL
COUNTY. IN TAZEWELL COUNTY A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS SPOTTED NEAR MINIER
MOVING EAST INTO WESTERN MCLEAN COUNTY NEAR STANFORD.
ATTN ISP 6 AND 8What 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 14, 5:23 AM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-141630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 500 AM CDT TUE MAY 14 1991 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS. A 5 AM... A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS DETECTED IN EASTERN STARK AND WESTERN MARSHALL COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION WAS OCCURRING NEAR LA PRARIE CENTER...15 MILES NORTH OF PEORIA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 15 MPH. DURING THE LAST HOUR...DENSE FOG HAD DEVELOPED IN THE PEORIA AREA...REDUCING THE VISIBILITY TO ONE HALF MILE. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS ACROSS THE HEART OF ILLINOIS. WE CAN ALSO EXPECT AREAS OF FOG TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION. MOTORIST SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS AS VISISBILITIES WILL BE REDUCED IN SOME AREAS DUE TO DENSE FOG AND ALSO HEAVY RAINS IN SOME AREAS. BREESER
Special weather statement, May 14, 8:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-141630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 800 AM CDT TUE MAY 14 1991 AT 745 A THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED IN SOUTHWESTERN FULTON COUNTY NEAR ASTORIA...45 MILES TO THE SOUTHWEST OF PEORIA. VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL COULD BE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST ALONG THE ILLINOIS RIVER AT ABOUT 15 MPH. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT AND HEVY RAIN WITH THIS STORM YTHE POSSIBILITY EXIST FOR MINOR FLODING OF STREETS LOW LYING AGRICULTURAL AREA. BREESER
Special weather statement, May 14, 9:01 AM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-141500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 900 AM CDT TUE MAY 14 1991 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS WEST AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 8:57 THIS MORNING... RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING SOME VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN EASTERN FULTON COUNTY NEAR HAVANA. THE STORM HAS WEAKENED SOMEWHAT DURING THE PAST HOUR BUT IS STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ALONG WITH THE HEAVY RAIN. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE UP ALONG THE ILLINOIS RIVER IN THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF PEORIA. IF THE STORM HOLDS TOGETHER IT MAY BE EXPECTED TO REACH THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF PEORIA BY ABOUT 10:30 AM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OUT IN WESTERN ILLINOIS NEAR QUINCY. THOSE THUNDER- STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST TO HANCOCK AND SCHUYLER COUNTIES. JACOBS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 10:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 67 min |
| May 14, 11:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Macon | 63 min |
| May 14, 12:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | McLean | 35 min |
| May 14, 12:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Macon | 59 min |
| May 14, 12:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign | 57 min |
| May 14, 1:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas, Moultrie | 25 min |
| May 14, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas, Edgar | 45 min |
| May 14, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clark | 27 min |
| May 14, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Bureau | 60 min |
| May 14, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macoupin, Montgomery, Sangamon | 44 min |
| May 14, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macoupin, Montgomery | 52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.