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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 9, 1995McLean County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at May 9, 1995, 6:47 PM CDT for McLean County, Illinois. It was in force for 58 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: May 9, 1995, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 1995, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties

County McLean County, IL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 9, 7:10 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Leroy, IL	A tornado touched down 2 N of Wapella destroying several outbuildings, then it hopped and skipped along a 13-mile path causing sporadic damage along the way, mainly to trees and power lines. It did damage two to three homes in LeRoy before it finally dissipat

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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 43 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: 53 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPIA 092349
TORPIA
ILC113-100045-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
647 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEORIA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
 
   ...MCLEAN COUNTY
 
AT 645 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF
LINCOLN. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH...AND WIL*L AFFECT THE
TOWNS OF MCLEAN...FUNKS GROVE...AND BLOOMINGTON/NORMAL BY 715 PM CDT.
 
GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME TO AN INTERIOR ROOM IMMEDIATELY!
 
HUNTER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Schuyler	58 min
May 9, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Stark	24 min
May 9, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Menard, Morgan, Sangamon	51 min
May 9, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Mason	41 min
May 9, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Sangamon	35 min
May 9, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton	50 min
May 9, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Logan, Menard	45 min
May 9, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Sangamon	34 min
May 9, 5:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Fulton	40 min
May 9, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Knox	47 min
May 9, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Logan	45 min
May 9, 5:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Tazewell	54 min
May 9, 5:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Logan	48 min
May 9, 6:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Peoria	52 min
May 9, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian	42 min
May 9, 6:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Woodford	69 min
May 9, 6:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Tazewell	46 min
May 9, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Logan	45 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.