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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Aug 23, 2007, 1:52 PM CDT for Stark County, Illinois. It was in force for 9 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
- Aug 23, 2007, 1:52 PM CDT (18:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2007, 2:01 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stark County, IL
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 314 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1080 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KILX 231852 TORILX ILC175-231915- /O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0016.070823T1852Z-070823T1915Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 152 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN STARK COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS... * UNTIL 215 PM CDT. * AT 152 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF CASTLETON...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KEWANEE...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...OSCEOLA. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM...AND ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS SUPPORT THAT ROTATION REACHING THE GROUND. 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS. LAT...LON 4122 8984 4105 8977 4108 8964 4123 8968 $$ CHURCHILL
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KILX 231901 SVSILX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 201 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2007 ILC175-231911- /O.CAN.KILX.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-070823T1915Z/ STARK- 201 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN STARK COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 158 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM THAT HAD PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA UNTIL 800 PM. REMAIN ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND WARNINGS. LAT...LON 4122 8984 4105 8977 4108 8964 4123 8968 $$ CHURCHILL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall | 35 min |
| Aug 23, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox, Peoria, Stark | 47 min |
| Aug 23, 1:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox, Marshall, Peoria, Stark, Woodford | 49 min |
| Aug 23, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall, Woodford | 35 min |
| Aug 23, 3:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ILX | Fulton, Knox, McLean, Marshall, Peoria, Stark and 2 more | 37 hr |
| Aug 23, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Stark | 39 min |
| Aug 23, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox, Stark | 50 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.