Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2007, 4:27 PM CDT for Douglas County, Illinois. It was in force for 33 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
- Jun 23, 2007, 4:27 PM CDT (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2007, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Douglas County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 783 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KILX 232129 TORILX ILC041-232200- /O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0015.070623T2127Z-070623T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 427 PM CDT SAT JUN 23 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DOUGLAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... * UNTIL 500 PM CDT. * AT 427 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF ARCOLA...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TUSCOLA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ARCOLA... TUSCOLA... CAMARGO... VILLA GROVE... 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 3986 8846 3966 8847 3971 8807 3988 8815 $$ HJS
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KILX 232156 SVSILX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 456 PM CDT SAT JUN 23 2007 ILC041-232206- /O.EXP.KILX.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-070623T2200Z/ DOUGLAS- 456 PM CDT SAT JUN 23 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY EXPIRES AT 500 PM CDT... AT 455 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM THAT HAD PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. LAT...LON 3986 8846 3966 8847 3971 8807 3988 8815 $$ HJS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Coles, Douglas, Moultrie, Piatt | 45 min |
| Jun 23, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Cumberland, Effingham, Moultrie, Shelby | 45 min |
| Jun 23, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Jasper | 60 min |
| Jun 23, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford, Jasper | 46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.