Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Sep 22, 2006, 5:34 PM CDT for Morgan County, Scott County, Illinois. It was in force for 26 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
- Sep 22, 2006, 5:34 PM CDT (22:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2006, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Morgan County, IL, Scott County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 1:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 831 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 571 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 612 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 222234 TORILX ILC137-171-222300- /O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0004.060922T2234Z-060922T2300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 534 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN SCOTT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... MORGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... * UNTIL 600 PM CDT. * AT 534 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NAPLES...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF PITTSFIELD... MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... EXETER... CHAPIN... JACKSONVILLE... WOODSON... ALEXANDER... FRANKLIN... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. DO NOT USE HIGHWAY OVERPASSES FOR SHELTER. OVERPASSES DO NOT PROVIDE PROTECTION FROM TORNADIC WINDS...AND VEHICLES STOPPED UNDER BRIDGES BLOCK TRAFFIC. IF YOU CANNOT DRIVE AWAY FROM THE TORNADO...GET OUT OF YOUR VEHICLE AND LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AS A LAST RESORT. 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 3978 9063 3964 9067 3961 8998 3979 9000 $$ GEELHART/BARKER
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KILX 222305 SVSILX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 605 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006 ILC137-171-222315- /O.EXP.KILX.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-060922T2300Z/ MORGAN-SCOTT- 605 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR MORGAN AND NORTHERN SCOTT COUNTIES EXPIRED AT 6 PM... AT 6 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM THAT HAD PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED... THUS THE TORNADO WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 6 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST MORGAN COUNTY UNTIL 615 PM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 3978 9063 3964 9067 3961 8998 3979 9000 $$ GEELHART/BARKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Fulton, Mason, Schuyler | 46 min |
| Sep 22, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Mason, Tazewell | 47 min |
| Sep 22, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Woodford | 35 min |
| Sep 22, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Menard, Morgan, Sangamon | 45 min |
| Sep 22, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford, Lawrence, Richland | 42 min |
| Sep 22, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan | 43 min |
| Sep 22, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 40 min |
| Sep 22, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 52 min |
| Sep 22, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt | 50 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.