Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at May 14, 1991, 2:00 PM CDT for Coles County, Douglas County, Edgar County, Illinois. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1991, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1991, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coles County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 293 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 KSPI 141900
TORSPI
ILC041-029-045-141945-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL
200 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1991
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
SOUTHERN DOUGLAS...NORTHERN COLES...EDGAR
BETWEEN 130 AND 140 PM...THERE HAVE REPORTS OF TORNADOES 30 MILES
SOUTH OF CHAMPAIGN AND 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHAMPAIGN IN EAST
CENTRAL ILLINOIS. A LATE REPORT WAS RECEIVED FROM ARCOLA AT 130 PM
AND A LATER REPORT WEST OF HUME AT 140 PM IN EDGAR COUNTY.
THESE TORNADOS WERE MOVING SLOWLY EAST AT 15 MPH.g
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A 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...10
PALMERWhat 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, 8:00 AM CDT, 6 hours 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, 4 hours 59 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
Special weather statement, May 14, 1:35 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-141930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 135 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 330 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM FOR EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... INCLUDING MCLEAN COUNTY... AT 1:30 THIS AFTERNOON RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF MCLEAN COUNTY... MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. ELSEWHERE... A NEW THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING OVER KNOX COUNTY ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF GALESBURG. E A COUPLE OF SHOWERS HAD ALSO DEVELOPED IN WESTERN PEORIA COUNTY BETWEEN BRIMFIELD AND PEORIA. MOVEMENT HAD NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED ON THESE NEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BUT THEY ARE PROBABLY MOVING EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. 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, 11:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | McLean | 61 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, 2:48 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
Tornado Warnings in Illinois, 1991Every tornado warning in 1991Tornadoes in 1991
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.