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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Lincoln, IL

November 15, 2005Richland County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Nov 15, 2005, 12:56 PM CST for Richland County, Illinois. It was in force for 34 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: Nov 15, 2005, 12:56 PM CST (18:56 UTC)
Expired: Nov 15, 2005, 1:30 PM CST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Richland County, IL

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 15, 10:13 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 169 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 447 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KILX 151856
TORILX
ILC159-151930-
/O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0018.051115T1856Z-051115T1930Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
1256 PM CST TUE NOV 15 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  RICHLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 130 PM CST

* AT 1256 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES...5 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF SCHNELL...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OLNEY...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CLAREMONT

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...CALHOUN.

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 3861 8816 3861 8824 3863 8827 3885 8802
      3885 8792 3885 8792 3865 8793 3858 8802
      3858 8815

$$

BARNES

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KILX 151914
SVSILX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
114 PM CST TUE NOV 15 2005

ILC159-151930-
/O.CON.KILX.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-051115T1930Z/
RICHLAND-
114 PM CST TUE NOV 15 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 130 PM CST FOR RICHLAND
COUNTY...

AT 108 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR CLAREMONT MOVING 
NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORK BENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY...AND ALWAYS 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 3861 8816 3861 8824 3863 8827 3885 8802
      3885 8792 3885 8792 3865 8793 3858 8802
      3858 8815

$$

BARNES

000 
WWUS53 KILX 151930
SVSILX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
130 PM CST TUE NOV 15 2005

ILC159-151940-
/O.EXP.KILX.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-051115T1930Z/
RICHLAND-
130 PM CST TUE NOV 15 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR RICHLAND COUNTY EXPIRES AT 130 PM CST...

AT 124 PM CST...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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST. 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 3861 8816 3861 8824 3863 8827 3885 8802
      3885 8792 3885 8792 3865 8793 3858 8802
      3858 8815

$$

BARNES

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 15, 1:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Crawford, Lawrence	44 min
Nov 15, 1:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Lawrence	44 min
Nov 15, 2:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay	40 min
Nov 15, 3:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Crawford, Jasper	46 min
Nov 15, 3:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Clark, Crawford, Jasper	23 min
Nov 15, 4:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Lawrence	28 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.