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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 2006, 1:22 AM CDT for Piatt County, Illinois. It was in force for 23 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 14, 2006, 1:22 AM CDT (06:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2006, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Piatt County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:24 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 13, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 2 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 20 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
- 2712 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 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 140623 TORILX ILC147-140645- /O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0039.060414T0622Z-060414T0645Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 122 AM CDT FRI APR 14 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL PIATT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 145 AM CDT * AT 122 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES...4 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEMENT...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONTICELLO... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BEMENT... RURAL AREAS OF PIATT COUNTY... 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. TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS AT NIGHT...BECAUSE THEY ARE HARD TO SEE. DO NOT REMAIN IN YOUR CAR OR MOBILE HOME. INSTEAD...TAKE COVER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING. GO TO A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. 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 4007 8860 3988 8867 3982 8848 4001 8847 $$ AUTEN
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KILX 140653 SVSILX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 153 AM CDT FRI APR 14 2006 ILC147-140703- /O.EXP.KILX.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-060414T0645Z/ PIATT- 153 AM CDT FRI APR 14 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL PIATT COUNTY EXPIRED AT 145 AM CDT... AT 151 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM THAT HAD PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM. REMAIN ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF MORE SEVERE WEATHER. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO YOUR LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGER...OR THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4007 8860 3988 8867 3982 8848 4001 8847 $$ AUTEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 9:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Knox | 44 min |
| Apr 13, 10:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Knox | 46 min |
| Apr 13, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall | 49 min |
| Apr 13, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall, Peoria, Stark | 54 min |
| Apr 13, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 61 min |
| Apr 13, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 56 min |
| Apr 13, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford | 63 min |
| Apr 13, 11:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Knox | 30 min |
| Apr 13, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell | 53 min |
| Apr 13, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 64 min |
| Apr 13, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall, Peoria, Stark | 61 min |
| Apr 13, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 53 min |
| Apr 13, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan | 64 min |
| Apr 14, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 48 min |
| Apr 14, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall, Woodford | 59 min |
| Apr 14, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Piatt | 66 min |
| Apr 14, 12:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Logan | 36 min |
| Apr 14, 12:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Macon | 40 min |
| Apr 14, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 61 min |
| Apr 14, 12:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 64 min |
| Apr 14, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Piatt | 37 min |
| Apr 14, 1:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 1:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign | 41 min |
| Apr 14, 8:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Schuyler | 27 min |
| Apr 14, 9:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Mason, Menard | 58 min |
| Apr 14, 9:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Sangamon | 44 min |
| Apr 14, 10:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon | 49 min |
| Apr 14, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 41 min |
| Apr 14, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 16 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.