Tornado Warning 5, NWS Lincoln, IL

Issued

Apr 8, 1999, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)

Expired

Apr 8, 1999, 8:30 PM CDT

In force

46 min

Issued by

NWS Lincoln, IL

Area

Whole counties

County Knox County, IL

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

999 
WFUS1 KSPI 090043 RRA
TORSPI
ILC095-090130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
744 PM CDT THU APR 8 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  KNOX COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 740 PM CDT... LINCOLN DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 15 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF GALESBURG... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ABINGDON
  KNOXVILLE
  GALESBURG

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

NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Apr 8, 2:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
200 PM CDT THU APR 8 1999

UPPER LOW IS NOW OVER SWRN NEBRASKA WITH SFC SYSTEM JUST EAST OVER SC
NE.

88D SHOWING RWS/TRWS CONTINUING TO MOVE E ACROSS CWA ALONG AND AHEAD OF
WF...BUT MAIN ACTIVITY TO ARRIVE THIS EVENING.

STORMS FIRING UP NICELY ALONG DRYLINE OVER EASTERN KS/NE AND STILL
PROJECTED TO RAPIDLY MOVE EAST INTO WRN SECTIONS OF C IL BETWEEN 5 AND
7 PM. SPC HAS MOVED HIGH RISK AREA A LITTLE FURTHER W...WHICH IS A GOOD
MOVE. SFC ACTIVITY WILL OUTRACE UPPER SYSTEM...THUS AS TRWS APPROACH
CWA...MAY SEE SOME WEAKENING AS MAIN ENERGY WILL STILL BE TO THE W AND
NW. HOWEVER...WILL STILL ENFORCE WORDING FOR TONIGHT/S ZONES ABOUT SVR
POSSIBILITIES.

SHOULD SEE AN END TO PCPN OVER MOST OF CWA WITH PASSAGE OF CF AS PLENTY
OF DRY AIR MOVG INTO CWA. LOW CLDS AND SOME RW ACTIVITY STILL POSSIBLE
OVER NRN SECTIONS DUE TO POSITION OF LOW.

PIA  50/64 +3
SPI  52/67 +2
DEC  53/66 +2
CMI  55/65 +2
LWV  58/69 +2

BYRD

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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.