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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2008, 4:36 PM CDT for Vermilion County, Illinois. It was in force for 12 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 30, 2008, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2008, 4:48 PM CDT
- In force
- 12 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Vermilion County, IL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -325 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1164 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 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 302136 RRA
TORILX
ILC183-302200-
/O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0018.080530T2136Z-080530T2200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
436 PM CDT FRI MAY 30 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN VERMILION COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...
* UNTIL 500 PM CDT.
* AT 436 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
HOOPESTON...OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FOWLER...MOVING EAST AT
44 MPH.
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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHERN ILLINOIS.
LAT...LON 4041 8752 4039 8774 4049 8776 4050 8761
4050 8753 4049 8753 4045 8753 4044 8752
TIME...MOT...LOC 2136Z 270DEG 38KT 4046 8761
$$
CHURCHILL1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KILX 302148
SVSILX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
448 PM CDT FRI MAY 30 2008
ILC183-302158-
/O.CAN.KILX.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-080530T2200Z/
VERMILION-
448 PM CDT FRI MAY 30 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN VERMILION COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
AT 544 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THE THUNDERSTORM THAT HAD PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF THE
AREA...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 4041 8752 4039 8774 4049 8776 4050 8761
4050 8753 4049 8753 4045 8753 4044 8752
TIME...MOT...LOC 2148Z 270DEG 38KT 4046 8744
$$
CHURCHILLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 2:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILX | McLean, Tazewell, Woodford | 4 hr |
| May 30, 3:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | McLean | 27 min |
| May 30, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 49 min |
| May 30, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Cass, Mason, Menard | 31 min |
| May 30, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 50 min |
| May 30, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Logan | 24 min |
| May 30, 4:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan, Macon | 46 min |
| May 30, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass | 38 min |
| May 30, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 46 min |
| May 30, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, McLean, Piatt | 44 min |
| May 30, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 49 min |
| May 30, 5:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | McLean, Tazewell, Woodford | 3 hr |
| May 30, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign | 40 min |
| May 30, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 49 min |
| May 30, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 36 min |
| May 30, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Fulton, Mason, Morgan, Schuyler | 46 min |
| May 30, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon, Sangamon | 43 min |
| May 30, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 16 min |
| May 30, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas, Edgar, Vermilion | 31 min |
| May 30, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Morgan, Sangamon | 47 min |
| May 30, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 35 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.