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Tornado Warning 76, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2006, 5:57 PM CDT for Coles County, Douglas County, Illinois. It was in force for 18 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
- May 24, 2006, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2006, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Coles County, IL, Douglas County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 1421 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 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 242258 TORILX ILC029-041-242315- /O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0076.060524T2257Z-060524T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 557 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS EXTENDED THE * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN COLES COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS SOUTHEASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 557 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES...6 MILES NORTHWEST OF HUTTON...OR ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHARLESTON... MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ASHMORE... OAKLAND... OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...RARDIN. 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 3977 8809 3938 8820 3938 8801 3965 8796 $$ SMITH
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KILX 242314 SVSILX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 614 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2006 ILC029-041-242324- /O.EXP.KILX.TO.W.0076.000000T0000Z-060524T2315Z/ DOUGLAS-COLES- 614 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN DOUGLAS AND EASTERN COLES COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 615 PM CDT... AT 614 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM THAT HAD PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT. REMAIN ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF MORE SEVERE WEATHER. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO YOUR LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGER...OR THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3977 8809 3938 8820 3938 8801 3965 8796 $$ SMITH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 46 min |
| May 24, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan, Sangamon | 46 min |
| May 24, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 50 min |
| May 24, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria | 49 min |
| May 24, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Mason | 34 min |
| May 24, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean, Woodford | 43 min |
| May 24, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Sangamon | 50 min |
| May 24, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall, Woodford | 46 min |
| May 24, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon, Shelby | 63 min |
| May 24, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian | 33 min |
| May 24, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon, Moultrie, Piatt | 56 min |
| May 24, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, McLean | 32 min |
| May 24, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Shelby | 31 min |
| May 24, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign | 54 min |
| May 24, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas | 66 min |
| May 24, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Moultrie, Shelby | 32 min |
| May 24, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas | 36 min |
| May 24, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cumberland | 59 min |
| May 24, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign | 36 min |
| May 24, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 55 min |
| May 24, 5:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clark, Edgar | 41 min |
| May 24, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Effingham | 46 min |
| May 24, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark | 30 min |
| May 24, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Jasper | 42 min |
| May 24, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Richland | 66 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.