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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Lincoln, IL

February 11, 1999Tazewell County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Feb 11, 1999, 3:34 PM CST for Tazewell County, Illinois. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 11, 1999, 3:34 PM CST (21:34 UTC)
Expired: Feb 11, 1999, 4:00 PM CST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties

County Tazewell County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 11, 11:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 394 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -231 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 746 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 293 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 310 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSPI 112135
TORSPI
ILC179-112200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
334 PM CST THU FEB 11 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TAZEWELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 400 PM CST

* AT 330 PM CST... LINCOLN DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
  4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PEKIN... MOVING NORTHEAST 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  TREMONT
  PEKIN
  HOPEDALE
  MACKINAW
  MORTON

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.

AUTEN/KETCHAM/PLAHMER


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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.

NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Feb 11, 2:00 PM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 11, 2:00 PM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
200 PM CST THU FEB 11 1999

NGM A BIT SLOWER ON THE FNTL MOVMT THAN THE ETA AND AVN. MAPS DATA ON
AWIPS SHOWS FNT IS MOVG A BIT FASTER THAN EVEN THE FASTEST MODEL.
SQUALL LINE HAS DVLPD AND MOVING INTO CWA NOW. EXPECT THE BEST
POTENTIAL IS FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND SOME HAIL...AS THE DIRECTIONAL
SHEAR IS NOT THAT STRONG. SOME POSSIBLE SPIN UP TORNADOES...BUT
DAMAGING WINDS THE BEST THREAT DU|E TO THE VERY STRONG WINDS ALOFT.

PIA  25/27  +3
SPI  27/29  +3
DEC  27/29  +3
CMI  30/31  +3
LWV  32/34  +5

GOETSCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 11, 12:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Schuyler	43 min
Feb 11, 1:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton, Knox	33 min
Feb 11, 2:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Peoria, Stark	45 min
Feb 11, 2:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Scott	28 min
Feb 11, 2:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Morgan	34 min
Feb 11, 2:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cass	35 min
Feb 11, 3:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Woodford	37 min
Feb 11, 4:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign	39 min
Feb 11, 5:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay	28 min
Feb 11, 5:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Edgar	33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.