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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Apr 25, 2007, 4:44 PM CDT for Coles County, Douglas County, Illinois. It was in force for 31 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 25, 2007, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2007, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 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), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 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 252144 TORILX ILC029-041-252215- /O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0010.070425T2144Z-070425T2215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 444 PM CDT WED APR 25 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN COLES COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... DOUGLAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... * UNTIL 515 PM CDT. * AT 444 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF HUMBOLDT...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF MATTOON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ARCOLA... HINDSBORO... RARDIN... OAKLAND... TUSCOLA... CAMARGO... NEWMAN... 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. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...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 3956 8837 3955 8798 3981 8797 3983 8836 $$ BARKER
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KILX 252159 SVSILX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 458 PM CDT WED APR 25 2007 ILC029-041-252215- /O.CON.KILX.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-070425T2215Z/ COLES-DOUGLAS- 458 PM CDT WED APR 25 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR DOUGLAS AND NORTHERN COLES COUNTIES... AT 456 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 3 MILES EAST OF HUMBOLDT...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHARLESTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PEOPLE NEAR THESE LOCATIONS ARE STILL THREATENED... RARDIN... HINDSBORO... CAMARGO... MURDOCK... TUSCOLA... OAKLAND... NEWMAN... LAT...LON 3956 8837 3955 8798 3981 8797 3983 8836 $$
000 WWUS53 KILX 252213 SVSILX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 513 PM CDT WED APR 25 2007 ILC029-041-252223- /O.EXP.KILX.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-070425T2215Z/ COLES-DOUGLAS- 513 PM CDT WED APR 25 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR DOUGLAS AND NORTHERN COLES COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 515 PM CDT... AT 509 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM THAT HAD PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. LAT...LON 3956 8837 3955 8798 3981 8797 3983 8836 $$ BARKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 2:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon, Moultrie, Piatt, Sangamon, Shelby | 48 min |
| Apr 25, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas, Moultrie | 33 min |
| Apr 25, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas, Edgar | 30 min |
| Apr 25, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian | 36 min |
| Apr 25, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian | 34 min |
| Apr 25, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian | 30 min |
| Apr 25, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Macon | 35 min |
Nearby
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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.