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Tornado Warning 86, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jul 26, 2006, 7:05 PM CDT for Macon County, Illinois. It was in force for 12 min. 1 report 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, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2006, 7:17 PM CDT
- In force
- 12 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Macon County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 7:17 PM CDT | TORNADO | 2 Sw Argenta, IL | TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A BRIEF TOUCHDOWN BETWEEN OREANA AND ARGENTA. |
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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 27 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
- 3636 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 995 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 313 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.9
- Supercell composite
- 22.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KILX 270005 TORILX ILC115-270030- /O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0086.060727T0005Z-060727T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 705 PM CDT WED JUL 26 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN MACON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS... * UNTIL 730 PM CDT. * AT 705 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTH OF ARGENTA...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF DECATUR...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. 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 4004 8889 3988 8887 3988 8875 4005 8875 $$ BARKER
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KILX 270017 SVSILX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 717 PM CDT WED JUL 26 2006 ILC115-270027- /O.CAN.KILX.TO.W.0086.000000T0000Z-060727T0030Z/ MACON- 717 PM CDT WED JUL 26 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN MACON COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 715 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM THAT HAD PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 4004 8889 3988 8887 3988 8875 4005 8875 $$ BARKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Piatt | 45 min |
| Jul 26, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign, Piatt | 27 min |
| Jul 26, 7:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Piatt | 3 hr |
| Jul 26, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 34 min |
| Jul 26, 7:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 23 min |
| Jul 26, 7:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Champaign | 4 hr |
| Jul 26, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Piatt | 27 min |
| Jul 26, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon, Piatt | 40 min |
| Jul 26, 9:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Macon | 3 hr |
| Jul 26, 9:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Piatt | 4 hr |
| Jul 26, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan | 63 min |
| Jul 27, 2:52 PM CDT | Flood Watch | ILX | Cass, Champaign, DeWitt, Fulton, Logan, McLean and 6 more | 12 hr |
| Jul 27, 3:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Champaign, DeWitt, Piatt | 3 hr |
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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.