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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2001, 1:14 PM CDT for Macon County, Piatt County, Illinois. It was in force for 46 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 24, 2001, 1:14 PM CDT (18:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2001, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Macon County, IL, Piatt County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 1:24 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Oakley, IL | A tornado briefly touched down in a field. No injuries or damage were reported. |
| Oct 24, 1:35 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Monticello, IL | An eyewitness reported that the tornado touched down on the southwest side of Monticello and traveled to the north northeast across town. It blew down numerous trees near the golf course then destroyed a storage building. In this area the tornado intensified |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 11:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 33 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.
344 WFUS53 KILX 241816 TORSPI ILC115-147-241900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 114 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PIATT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS MACON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 200 PM CDT * AT 114 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER DECATUR...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. AT 107 PM ...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 12 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF THE DECATUR AIRPORT...NEAR BOODY BY AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DECATUR OREANA CERRO GORDO ARGENTA BEMENT MONTICELLO WHITE HEATH 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 3991 8908 3974 8900 3984 8848 4013 8851 $$ MILLER NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 11:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 36 min |
| 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, 1:22 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.