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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2008, 6:44 PM CDT for 4 counties in 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
- May 30, 2008, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2008, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Champaign County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 1:52 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 146 days |
| May 30, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 77 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 302344 TORILX ILC019-041-045-183-310015- /O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0026.080530T2344Z-080531T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 644 PM CDT FRI MAY 30 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... NORTHERN EDGAR COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... SOUTHEASTERN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... SOUTHERN VERMILION COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... * UNTIL 715 PM CDT. * AT 644 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR BROADLANDS...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF TUSCOLA...MOVING EAST AT 34 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ALLERTON... SIDELL... CHRISMAN... RIDGE FARM... 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 3996 8754 3979 8754 3980 8809 3992 8809 TIME...MOT...LOC 2344Z 266DEG 30KT 3989 8797 $$ CHURCHILL
1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KILX 302355 RRA
SVSILX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
655 PM CDT FRI MAY 30 2008
ILC019-041-045-183-310015-
/O.CON.KILX.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-080531T0015Z/
CHAMPAIGN-DOUGLAS-EDGAR-VERMILION-
655 PM CDT FRI MAY 30 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN
VERMILION...SOUTHEASTERN CHAMPAIGN...NORTHERN EDGAR AND NORTHEASTERN
DOUGLAS COUNTIES...
AT 654 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BROADLANDS...OR
ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF TUSCOLA...MOVING EAST AT 21 MPH.
PEOPLE NEAR THESE LOCATIONS ARE STILL THREATENED...
ALLERTON...
PALERMO...
SIDELL...
INDIANOLA...
RIDGE FARM...
CHRISMAN...
SCOTTLAND...
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.
LAT...LON 3984 8808 3993 8807 3992 8799 3993 8798
3993 8788 3994 8786 3994 8777 3996 8754
3979 8754
TIME...MOT...LOC 2355Z 275DEG 18KT 3990 8799
$$
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, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 12 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, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Morgan, Sangamon | 47 min |
| May 30, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 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.