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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2002, 7:19 PM CDT for Champaign County, Illinois. It was in force for 56 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 19, 2002, 7:19 PM CDT (00:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2002, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Champaign County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 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
- 49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 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 200019 TORSPI ILC019-200115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 716 PM CDT FRI APR 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 716 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER PESOTUM...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF TUSCOLA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PHILO SIDNEY BROADLANDS 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 3989 8834 3989 8804 3989 8794 4017 8803 AUTEN NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon | 65 min |
| Apr 19, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Piatt | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Menard, Sangamon | 66 min |
| Apr 19, 7:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas | 55 min |
| Apr 19, 8:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 5 hr |
| Apr 19, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian | 62 min |
| Apr 19, 8:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Piatt | 5 hr |
| Apr 19, 8:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Piatt, Sangamon | 5 hr |
| Apr 19, 8:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Piatt | 5 hr |
| Apr 19, 8:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 5 hr |
| Apr 19, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Macon, Sangamon | 52 min |
| Apr 19, 9:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon | 5 hr |
| Apr 19, 9:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan | 4 hr |
| Apr 20, 2:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas | 6 hr |
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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.