Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 2001, 4:32 PM CDT for Moultrie County, Illinois. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2001, 4:32 PM CDT (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2001, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Moultrie County, IL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Sullivan, IL | A tornado briefly touched down in a field. No damage or injuries were reported. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 11:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 1832 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1274 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KILX 082133 TORSPI ILC139-082215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 432 PM CDT SUN JUL 8 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MOULTRIE COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 432 PM CDT...A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COOPERATIVE OBSERVER REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR LOVINGTON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LOVINGTON SULLIVAN ALLENVILLE 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 3979 8848 3963 8870 3946 8856 3949 8848 FRIEDERS NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 1:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 1:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Stark | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Woodford | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 56 min |
| Jul 8, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 67 min |
| Jul 8, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Douglas, Moultrie | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles | 64 min |
| Jul 8, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Edgar | 54 min |
| Jul 8, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Shelby | 71 min |
| Jul 8, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Shelby | 66 min |
| Jul 8, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Cumberland | 55 min |
| Jul 8, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Jasper | 75 min |
| Jul 8, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford | 68 min |
| Jul 8, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Cumberland | 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.