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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Apr 8, 1999, 10:47 PM CDT for Champaign County, Illinois. It was in force for 28 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 8, 1999, 10:47 PM CDT (03:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1999, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Champaign County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:48 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 8, 10:54 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 69 | Mahomet, IL | As a severe thunderstorm moved across Champaign County, it caused scattered areas of damage. Storm spotters recorded a 79 MPH wind gust just south of Lake of the Woods. Four miles east of Leverett, a green house was destroyed, a machine shed was flipped over |
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 8, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 859 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1075 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 344 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 449 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 8.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS1 KSPI 090346 RRA TORSPI ILC019-090415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 1047 PM CDT THU APR 8 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 1115 PM CDT * AT 1045 PM CDT... LINCOLN DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO JUST SOUTHWEST OF MAHOMET ... MOVING MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MOHAMET LAKE OF THE WOODS FISHER THOMASBORO RANTOUL IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR A SAFER SHELTER. FRIEDERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Knox | 46 min |
| Apr 8, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Scott | 28 min |
| Apr 8, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 44 min |
| Apr 8, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Fulton, Knox | 28 min |
| Apr 8, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria, Stark | 48 min |
| Apr 8, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 64 min |
| Apr 8, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall, Woodford | 58 min |
| Apr 8, 9:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Menard | 28 min |
| Apr 8, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 37 min |
| Apr 8, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan | 34 min |
| Apr 8, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon | 58 min |
| Apr 8, 10:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian | 28 min |
| Apr 8, 10:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Macon | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Shelby | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Moultrie, Piatt | 28 min |
| Apr 8, 10:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Piatt | 23 min |
| Apr 8, 10:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Effingham | 36 min |
| Apr 8, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas | 34 min |
| Apr 8, 11:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Cumberland | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 11:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Shelby | 15 min |
| Apr 8, 11:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign, Vermilion | 28 min |
| Apr 8, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 25 min |
| Apr 8, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles, Edgar | 30 min |
| Apr 8, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham, Jasper | 42 min |
| Apr 8, 11:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clark, Cumberland | 30 min |
| Apr 8, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 27 min |
| Apr 8, 11:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Edgar | 38 min |
| Apr 9, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford | 30 min |
| Apr 9, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford | 19 min |
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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.