Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Apr 12, 2002, 3:55 PM CDT for Champaign County, Douglas County, Illinois. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 12, 2002, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 2002, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Champaign County, IL, Douglas County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1073 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KILX 122055 TORSPI ILC019-041-122130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 355 PM CDT FRI APR 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS DOUGLAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 355 PM CDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER TUSCOLA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... TUSCOLA VILLA GROVE PESOTUM SIDNEY BROADLANDS HOMER 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. FUNNEL CLOUDS WITH THIS STORM MAY TOUCH DOWN AT ANY TIME. DO NOT WAIT FOR THE FUNNEL CLOUD TO TOUCH DOWN. 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 3984 8843 3970 8837 3982 8796 4012 8795 BYRD NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 44 min |
| Apr 12, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Shelby | 45 min |
| Apr 12, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Moultrie, Shelby | 51 min |
| Apr 12, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Effingham | 28 min |
| Apr 12, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas, Edgar, Vermilion | 53 min |
| Apr 12, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cumberland, Effingham | 43 min |
| Apr 12, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles | 54 min |
| Apr 12, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Edgar, Vermilion | 59 min |
| Apr 12, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay | 47 min |
| Apr 12, 5:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Edgar, Vermilion | 4 hr |
| Apr 12, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Richland | 50 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.