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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2001, 1:42 PM CDT for Champaign County, Illinois. It was in force for 48 min. 3 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, 1:42 PM CDT (18:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2001, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Champaign County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:45 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, 1:44 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Mahomet, IL | Several trees were blown down. Two semis were blown over, one on Interstate 57 near Rantoul and another one on I-57 near Thomasboro. No injuries were reported. A mobile home and an apartment building sustained minor damage due to fallen trees in Rantoul. A |
| Oct 24, 1:50 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Champaign, IL | |
| Oct 24, 1:55 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Champaign, IL | The tornado initially touched down just west of the intersection of Interstates 57 and 74. An animal hospital sustained minor damage to some free standing brick walls. Moving east northeast from this location, a semi was blown over on the clover leaf of the |
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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 30 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.
997 WFUS53 KILX 241843 TORSPI ILC019-241930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 142 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 230 PM CDT * AT 142 PM CDT...THE PIATT COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SEYMOUR...OR ABOUT 3 MILES EAST OF MONTICELLO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... SEYMOUR SAVOY MAHOMET LAKE OF THE WOODS CHAMPAIGN URBANA THOMASBORO ST. JOSEPH 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 4024 8846 3995 8845 4013 8796 4039 8795 $$ 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, 1:14 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, 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 |
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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.