Tornado Warning 15, NWS Lincoln, IL

Issued

May 14, 1991, 12:15 PM CDT (17:15 UTC)

Expired

May 14, 1991, 12:50 PM CDT

In force

35 min

Issued by

NWS Lincoln, IL

Area

Whole counties

County McLean County, IL

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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
1215 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1991

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
      EAST CENTRAL MCLEAN

AT 12:10 PM... RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
NEAR BLOOMINGTON IN EAST-CENTRAL MCLEAN COUNTY.  SPOTTERS CONTINUE
TO REPORT FUNNEL CLOUDS.  LATEST REPORTS AT 12:10... A FUNNEL AGAIN
NEAR DIAMOND STAR JUST WEST OF BLOOMINGTON... AND JUST NORTH OF
NORMAL.

STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST AT 15 MPH WHICH THREATENS BLOOMINGTON
AND OTHER TOWNS EAST OF BLOOMINGTON IN MCLEAN COUNTY.

IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM..GO TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND LIGHTNING.

 IN ADDITION... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUM BER 330 HAS BEEN
 ISSUED FOR EAST-CENTRAL ILLINOIS.  THE WATCH COVERS MCLEAN COUNTY
 UNTIL 6 PM.  PEORIA COUNTY AND THE CITY OF PEORIA ARE NOT IN THE
 WATCH AREA.

ATTN ISP 6

In the hours before

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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

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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

Tornado Warnings in Illinois, 1991Every tornado warning in 1991Tornadoes in 1991

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.