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Tornado Warning 84, NWS Lincoln, IL

July 26, 2006Champaign County, Vermilion County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jul 26, 2006, 6:46 PM CDT for Champaign County, Vermilion County, Illinois. It was in force for 29 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 26, 2006, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2006, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Champaign County, IL, Vermilion County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 26, 7:15 PM CDT	TORNADO	2 W Rossville, IL	...UPDATE TO PREV TOR REPORT... DAMAGE PATH FROM 2W OF ROSSVILLE AT 715PM TO 2N ROSSVILLE AT 723PM. TOOL SHED DESTROYED...OUTBUILDINGS DAMAGED...16 FOOT BOX TRAILER MOVED 20 FEET...AS WELL AS TREES DOWN. REPORTS FROM TRAINED SPOTTERS VIA EMERGENCY MANAGER.
Jul 26, 7:21 PM CDT	TORNADO	2 S Hoopeston, IL	TORNADO REPORTED ON THE GROUND BETWEEN ROSSVILLE AND HOOPESTON. REPORT FROM BOTH VERMILION AND CHAMPAIGN COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGERS.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 26, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 62 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 192 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1574 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KILX 262346
TORILX
ILC019-183-270015-
/O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0084.060726T2346Z-060727T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
646 PM CDT WED JUL 26 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...
  NORTHERN VERMILION COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT.

* AT 646 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR GIFFORD...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF
  RANTOUL...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RANKIN...
  POTOMAC...
  ROSSVILLE...
  HOOPESTON...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING  
GOLFBALL 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. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. MOVE
INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

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 4036 8819 4019 8812 4029 8755 4048 8755
      4048 8791 4040 8793

$$

BARKER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Macon, Piatt	40 min
Jul 26, 6:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Piatt	32 min
Jul 26, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, DeWitt, Macon, Piatt	43 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.