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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Dec 12, 1991, 2:57 PM CST for Bureau County, Stark County, Illinois. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 12, 1991, 2:57 PM CST (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 12, 1991, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bureau County, IL, Stark County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 525 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 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 122057
TORPIA
ILC011-175-122130-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
257 PM CST THU DEC 12 1991
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
BUREAU...STARK
AT 250 PM... SEVERAL TORNADOES WERE REPORTED ALONG THE KNOX-
STARK COUNTY LINES BETWEEN VICTORIA AND WEST JERSEY MOVING
NORHTEAST AT 40 TO 45 MPH.
TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE TORNADOES ARE TOULON... BRADFORD AND
PRINCETON.
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.
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.
THIS IS A DANG;EROUS STORM. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
ATTN 8...17
MOGGED.What 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, Dec 12, 2:12 PM CST, 45 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-122115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 210 PM CST THU DEC 12 1991 AT 2 PM... THE AREA OF SHOWERS THAT HAD DEVELOPED IN THE LAHARPE-ROSEVILLE AREA HAD MOVED NORTHEAST AND HAD BECOME THUNDERSTORMS NEAR GALEBURG AND KNOXVILLE. ANOTHER SMALL SHOWER... POSSIBLY A THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED NEAR ASTORIA IN SOUTHERN FULTON COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH. EXPECT THE THUNDERSTORMS ATO CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST INTO THE BRADFORD AREA BY 230 PM. THE SMALL THUNDERSTORM NEAR ASTORIA MAY ALSO INTENSIFY... POSSIBLY BECOMING STRONG AS IT ENTERS PEORIA COUNTY TOWARDS 3 PM. MOGGED
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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.