Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2007, 3:02 PM CDT for Clark County, Illinois. It was in force for 43 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 25, 2007, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2007, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clark County, IL
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 696 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 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 252002
TORILX
ILC023-252045-
/O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0014.070525T2002Z-070525T2045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
302 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CLARK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...
* UNTIL 345 PM CDT.
* AT 302 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
MARTINSVILLE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARSHALL...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MARTINSVILLE...
CLARKSVILLE...
MARSHALL...
DENNISON...
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 3948 8799 3921 8796 3924 8761 3934 8763
3935 8756 3947 8754
$$
GOETSCH3 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KILX 252018
SVSILX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
315 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2007
ILC023-252045-
/O.CON.KILX.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-070525T2045Z/
CLARK-
315 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN CLARK COUNTY...
AT 313 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES EAST OF
MARTINSVILLE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARSHALL...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTS BY THE PUBLIC HAVE BEEN RECEIVED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT FROM THIS STORM WHEN IT WAS NORTH OF CASEY.
PEOPLE NEAR THESE LOCATIONS ARE STILL THREATENED...
CLARKSVILLE...
MARSHALL...
DENNISON...
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
LAT...LON 3948 8799 3938 8798 3922 8779 3924 8761
3934 8763 3935 8756 3947 8754
$$
GOETSCH000
WWUS53 KILX 252030
SVSILX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
328 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2007
ILC023-252045-
/O.CON.KILX.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-070525T2045Z/
CLARK-
328 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN
CLARK COUNTY...
AT 324 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
MARSHALL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
OTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO EXTENDED
FROM 2 MILES EAST OF WESTFIELD TO 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF CLARKSVILLE.
THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
PEOPLE NEAR THESE LOCATIONS ARE STILL THREATENED...
MARSHALL...
DENNISON...
OTHER LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...CLARKSVILLE.
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.
LAT...LON 3948 8799 3943 8798 3928 8762 3934 8763
3935 8756 3947 8754
$$
GOETSCH000
WWUS53 KILX 252045
SVSILX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
344 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2007
ILC023-252054-
/O.EXP.KILX.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-070525T2045Z/
CLARK-
344 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY EXPIRES AT 345 PM
CDT...
AT 343 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THE THUNDERSTORM THAT HAD PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED...THUS
THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
CALLS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT INDICATE...AT THIS TIME...THAT NO
CONFIRMED TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS HAD OCCURRED.
LAT...LON 3948 8799 3943 8798 3928 8762 3934 8763
3935 8756 3947 8754
$$
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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.