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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 2006, 6:44 PM CDT for Vermilion County, Illinois. It was in force for 16 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, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2006, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Vermilion County, IL
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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 14, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 1011 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1797 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 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 142344 TORILX ILC183-150000- /O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0041.060414T2344Z-060415T0000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 644 PM CDT FRI APR 14 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN VERMILION COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 644 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES...3 MILES EAST OF HOOPESTON...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FOWLER...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. 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 4051 8767 4043 8769 4037 8753 4051 8751 $$ KH
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KILX 142351 SVSILX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 651 PM CDT FRI APR 14 2006 ILC183-150000- /O.CON.KILX.TO.W.0041.000000T0000Z-060415T0000Z/ VERMILION- 651 PM CDT FRI APR 14 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN VERMILION COUNTY... AT 647 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 6 MILES EAST OF HOOPESTON...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FOWLER...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR ONE IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...MOVE TO THE BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALL ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO YOUR LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGER...OR THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4051 8767 4043 8769 4037 8753 4051 8751 $$ KH
000 WWUS53 KILX 142359 SVSILX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 700 PM CDT FRI APR 14 2006 ILC183-150010- /O.EXP.KILX.TO.W.0041.000000T0000Z-060415T0000Z/ VERMILION- 700 PM CDT FRI APR 14 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN VERMILION COUNTY EXPIRES AT 700 PM CDT... AT 658 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 ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT. 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 4051 8767 4043 8769 4037 8753 4051 8751 $$ KH
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, 1:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Piatt | 23 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 |
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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.