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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 1997, 2:03 PM CDT for Schuyler County, Illinois. It was in force for 27 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
- Apr 30, 1997, 2:03 PM CDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 1997, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Schuyler County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 2:17 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Rushville, IL | Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees, one of which blocked Route 24 just north of Rushville. In Rushville, the winds damaged the library roof causing $7,800 in damage. No injuries were reported. |
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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 1366 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
526 WFUS1 KSPI 301903 RRA TORSPI ILC169-301930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 203 PM CDT WED APR 30 1997 * TORNADO WARNING FOR SCHUYLER COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 230 PM CDT * SOME TOWNS AFFECTED HUNTSVILLE CAMDEN RUSHVILLE * AT 202 PM CDT LINCOLN DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUNTSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR SAFER SHELTER. PLAHMER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 2:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Fulton, Schuyler | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Knox | 42 min |
| Apr 30, 3:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 3:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Mason | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian | 45 min |
| Apr 30, 3:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Marshall, Stark | 37 min |
| Apr 30, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Macon | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | McLean, Tazewell | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt | 40 min |
| Apr 30, 3:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Piatt | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Marshall | 30 min |
| Apr 30, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign | 55 min |
| Apr 30, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Cumberland | 30 min |
| Apr 30, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Edgar | 50 min |
| Apr 30, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Lawrence, Richland | 29 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.