Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches in 2006
Tornado Watch 185
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 14, 2006, 5:19 PM CDT for 63 counties in Illinois; 5 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 2006, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2006, 9:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 68 counties
Boone County, IL, Bureau County, IL, Carroll County, IL, Cass County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Coles County, IL, Cook County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, DeKalb County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, DuPage County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Ford County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Henry County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Kane County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Kendall County, IL, Knox County, IL, Lake County, IL, LaSalle County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Lee County, IL, Livingston County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Mason County, IL, McDonough County, IL, McHenry County, IL, McLean County, IL, Menard County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Ogle County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Richland County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Scott County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Stark County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Warren County, IL, Whiteside County, IL, Will County, IL, Winnebago County, IL, Woodford County, IL, Benton County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Lake County, IN, Newton County, IN, Porter County, IN
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Iroquois | 23 min |
| Apr 14, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Jasper, Newton | 31 min |
| Apr 14, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henry | 44 min |
| Apr 14, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henry | 27 min |
| Apr 14, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | LaSalle | 39 min |
| Apr 14, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Iroquois | 15 min |
| Apr 14, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Grundy, Kendall, Will | 45 min |
| Apr 14, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 41 min |
| Apr 14, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | LaSalle | 38 min |
| Apr 14, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Iroquois | 46 min |
| Apr 14, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Grundy, Will | 42 min |
| Apr 14, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Bureau, Putnam | 22 min |
| Apr 14, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Grundy, Will | 49 min |
| Apr 14, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 16 min |
| Apr 14, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Grundy, Livingston | 43 min |
| Apr 14, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kankakee, Will | 38 min |
| Apr 14, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Kankakee, Livingston | 26 min |
| Apr 14, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Jasper, Newton | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Jasper, Newton | 41 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 7:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford and 26 more | 92 min |
| Apr 13, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 26 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 13, 10:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Champaign, Cook, DeKalb and 38 more | 59 min |
| Apr 13, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, DeWitt and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 14, 1:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 39 more | 86 min |
| Apr 14, 1:58 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 21 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 14, 7:20 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cass, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, Knox, McDonough and 5 more | 115 min |
| Apr 14, 9:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Crawford and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 10:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles and 20 more | 85 min |
| Apr 14, 4:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 45 more | 87 min |
| Apr 14, 6:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cass, Champaign, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar and 24 more | 93 min |
| Apr 13, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 49 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:14 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Ohio and 3 more | 91 min |
| Apr 14, 1:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 32 more | 89 min |
| Apr 14, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 41 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 14, 4:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 51 more | 66 min |
| Apr 14, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland and 2 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Illinois, 2006Tornado Watches in Indiana, 2006Every tornado watch in 2006
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.