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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 13, 2005Macon County, Piatt County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2005, 7:08 PM CDT for Macon County, Piatt County, Illinois. It was in force for 24 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: Jun 13, 2005, 7:08 PM CDT (00:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2005, 7:32 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Macon County, IL, Piatt County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
Jun 13, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
Jun 13, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 32 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: 1265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1403 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KILX 140008
TORILX
ILC115-147-140045-
/O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0009.050614T0008Z-050614T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
708 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN PIATT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  EASTERN MACON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 708 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES...2 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF OAKLEY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF DECATUR...MOVING
  EAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CERRO GORDO
  BEMENT

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 3987 8888 3978 8885 3986 8846 4001 8848

$$

MILLER

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KILX 140032
SVSILX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
732 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

ILC115-147-140042-
/O.CAN.KILX.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-050614T0045Z/
MACON-PIATT-
732 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN MACON AND SOUTHERN PIATT COUNTIES
HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

AT 728 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THE THUNDERSTORM THAT HAD PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED...THUS
THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 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 3987 8888 3978 8885 3986 8846 4001 8848

$$

MILLER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, McLean	40 min
Jun 13, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Moultrie, Shelby	55 min
Jun 13, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	64 min
Jun 13, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Douglas	50 min
Jun 13, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles	41 min
Jun 13, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Edgar	58 min
Jun 13, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Sangamon	64 min
Jun 14, 1:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Macon, Piatt	6 hr
Jun 14, 1:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Vermilion	35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.