Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Aug 3, 1997, 5:07 PM CDT for Peoria County, Illinois. It was in force for 53 min. 2 reports 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
- Aug 3, 1997, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1997, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Peoria County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 5:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Brimfield, IL | Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree onto a mobile home in Brimfield. The tree caused moderate damage to the home. Also, another mobile home nearby had a small storage shed blown up against it. No injuries were reported and damage to the mobile home wa |
| Aug 3, 5:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Peoria, IL | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees, numerous tree limbs, and some power lines in Peoria. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -260 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1867 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
721 WFUS1 KSPI 032209 TORSPI ILC143-032310- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 507 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 1997 * TORNADO WARNING FOR PEORIA COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * SOME TOWNS AFFECTED PRINCEVILLE DUNLAP ELMWOOD PEORIA * AT 505 PM CDT LINCOLN DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF PEORIA NEAR PRINCEVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR SAFER SHELTER. OUSLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox, Stark | 52 min |
| Aug 3, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Knox | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria | 63 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.