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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Apr 2, 2006, 6:08 PM CDT for Mason County, Menard County, Illinois. It was in force for 40 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 2, 2006, 6:08 PM CDT (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2006, 6:48 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Mason County, IL, Menard County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 985 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KILX 022307 TORILX ILC125-129-030000- /O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0023.060402T2308Z-060403T0000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 608 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN MASON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS NORTHWESTERN MENARD COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 608 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES...11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EASTON...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MASON CITY... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... EASTON... MASON CITY... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. 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 4014 9001 4003 8984 4019 8960 4039 8975 $$ AUTEN
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KILX 022348 RRA SVSILX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 648 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2006 ILC125-129-022358- /O.CAN.KILX.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-060403T0000Z/ MENARD-MASON- 648 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN MENARD AND EASTERN MASON COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 646 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM THAT HAD PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM. REMAIN ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF MORE SEVERE WEATHER. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO YOUR LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGER...OR THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4014 9001 4003 8984 4019 8960 4039 8975 $$ AUTEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 56 min |
| Apr 2, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Schuyler | 34 min |
| Apr 2, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 57 min |
| Apr 2, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Menard | 44 min |
| Apr 2, 5:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 27 min |
| Apr 2, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian | 33 min |
| Apr 2, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Mason | 39 min |
| Apr 2, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Shelby | 33 min |
| Apr 2, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 23 min |
| Apr 2, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Logan | 43 min |
| Apr 2, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham | 25 min |
| Apr 2, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell | 35 min |
| Apr 2, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Macon | 31 min |
| Apr 2, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cumberland, Jasper | 27 min |
| Apr 2, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, McLean, Woodford | 30 min |
| Apr 2, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Moultrie | 20 min |
| Apr 2, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign, Coles, Douglas, Piatt | 41 min |
| Apr 2, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford, Lawrence, Richland | 34 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.