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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Sep 19, 2005, 3:40 PM CDT for Tazewell County, Illinois. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 19, 2005, 3:40 PM CDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 2005, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Tazewell County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 3:50 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Hopedale, IL | TREE LIMBS DOWN ACROSS TOWN. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 357 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 433 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 545 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 11.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KILX 192040 TORILX ILC179-192130- /O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0016.050919T2040Z-050919T2130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 340 PM CDT MON SEP 19 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN TAZEWELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 340 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES...NEAR GREEN VALLEY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF PEKIN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... DELAVAN HOPEDALE MINIER OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...DILLON. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. THE STORM MAY NOT BE PRODUCING A TORNADO AT THE MOMENT...BUT IS EXPECTED TO DURING THE WARNING PERIOD. FOR YOUR SAFETY...GO INDOORS NOW TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR A BASEMENT...AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO YOUR LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGER...OR THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4052 8966 4033 8970 4034 8931 4043 8930 $$ BARNES
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KILX 192059 SVSILX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 359 PM CDT MON SEP 19 2005 ILC179-192130- /O.CON.KILX.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-050919T2130Z/ TAZEWELL- 359 PM CDT MON SEP 19 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN TAZEWELL COUNTY... AT 357 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF HOPEDALE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF LINCOLN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO YOUR LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGER...OR THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4052 8966 4033 8970 4034 8931 4043 8930 $$ BARNES
000 WWUS53 KILX 192129 SVSILX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 429 PM CDT MON SEP 19 2005 ILC179-192139- /O.EXP.KILX.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-050919T2130Z/ TAZEWELL- 429 PM CDT MON SEP 19 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN TAZEWELL COUNTY EXPIRES AT 430 PM CDT... AT 424 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM THAT HAD PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT. REMAIN ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF MORE SEVERE WEATHER. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO YOUR LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGER...OR THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4052 8966 4033 8970 4034 8931 4043 8930 $$ BARNES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 44 min |
| Sep 19, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass | 51 min |
| Sep 19, 2:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 64 min |
| Sep 19, 2:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Tazewell | 55 min |
| Sep 19, 3:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox, Peoria | 43 min |
| Sep 19, 4:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Macon | 60 min |
| Sep 19, 7:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Douglas, Edgar | 60 min |
| Sep 19, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 58 min |
| Sep 19, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell | 58 min |
| Sep 19, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean, Woodford | 61 min |
| Sep 19, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan | 46 min |
| Sep 19, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, McLean | 29 min |
| Sep 19, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon | 26 min |
| Sep 19, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Vermilion | 55 min |
| Sep 19, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 59 min |
| Sep 19, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 48 min |
| Sep 19, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Menard, Sangamon | 66 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.