Tornado Warning 22, NWS Lincoln, IL

Issued

Aug 18, 2001, 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)

Expired

Aug 18, 2001, 5:00 PM CDT

In force

55 min

Issued by

NWS Lincoln, IL

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Edgar County, IL, Vermilion County, IL

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

313 
WFUS53 KILX 182108
TORSPI
ILC045-183-182200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
405 PM CDT SAT AUG 18 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EDGAR COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  VERMILION COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 405 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A TORNADO NEAR ALLERTON...OR ABOUT 18 MILES EAST OF TUSCOLA...
  MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.  

  CHAMPAIGN COUNTTY ESDA REPORTED 1.5 INCH HAIL IN BROADLANDS AT 406 
  PM.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HUME
  SIDELL
  CHRISMAN
  RIDGE FARM
  PALERMO

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...ACT NOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF.
DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE THE TORNADO BEFORE TAKING ACTION. YOU MAY
NOT SEE OR HEAR ITS APPROACH.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR ANY STORM DAMAGE TO YOUR LOCAL ESDA...OR THE
NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

LAT...LON 4000 8796 3978 8794 3971 8754 3996 8754

HEDGES

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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.