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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2001, 11:54 AM CDT for Sangamon County, Illinois. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 24, 2001, 11:54 AM CDT (16:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2001, 12:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Sangamon County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 11:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 1102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
816 WFUS53 KILX 241654 TORSPI ILC167-241730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 1154 AM CDT WED OCT 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SANGAMON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 1230 PM CDT * AT 1154 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AUBURN...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF VIRDEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... AUBURN LOAMI CHATHAM SPRINGFIELD ROCHESTER MECHANICSBURG 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. 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 3967 8995 3937 8989 3979 8939 3990 8939 MILLER NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 11:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Macon | 50 min |
| Oct 24, 12:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Piatt | 51 min |
| Oct 24, 12:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon, Sangamon | 48 min |
| Oct 24, 12:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 31 min |
| Oct 24, 12:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Tazewell | 26 min |
| Oct 24, 12:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Woodford | 64 min |
| Oct 24, 12:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, McLean | 65 min |
| Oct 24, 1:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Macon, Piatt | 46 min |
| Oct 24, 1:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian | 53 min |
| Oct 24, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Shelby | 45 min |
| Oct 24, 1:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign | 48 min |
| Oct 24, 2:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 48 min |
| Oct 24, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Cumberland | 52 min |
| Oct 24, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign | 32 min |
| Oct 24, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 15 min |
| Oct 24, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Edgar | 32 min |
| Oct 24, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Crawford, Jasper, Richland | 42 min |
| Oct 24, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark | 37 min |
| Oct 24, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Lawrence | 52 min |
| Oct 24, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford | 32 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.