Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 66, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Dec 27, 2008, 11:51 AM CST for Fulton County, Peoria County, Illinois. It was in force for 24 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 27, 2008, 11:51 AM CST (17:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 27, 2008, 12:15 PM CST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Fulton County, IL, Peoria County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:53 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 12:00 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | 1 W Canton, IL | BACK WINDOW BLOW OUT OF SPOTTERS TRUCK. TIME ESTIMATED. |
| Dec 27, 12:00 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | 4 Wsw Trivoli, IL | MULTIPLE POWER POLES DOWN NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF DOWNS SCHOOL ROAD AND WASSON ROAD IN SOUTHWEST PEORIA COUNTY. |
| Dec 27, 12:01 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | Canton, IL | SHINGLES BLOWN OFF HOUSE AND TREE LIMBS ON POWER LINES |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 10:58 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KILX 271751 TORILX ILC057-143-271815- /O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0066.081227T1751Z-081227T1815Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 1151 AM CST SAT DEC 27 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN FULTON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... SOUTHWESTERN PEORIA COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS... * UNTIL 1215 PM CST. * AT 1152 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF CANTON...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... TRIVOLI... GLASFORD... HANNA CITY... ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES...IS LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA. 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. LAT...LON 4075 8973 4058 8970 4050 9007 4065 9013 TIME...MOT...LOC 1752Z 249DEG 35KT 4059 9002 $$ GOETSCH
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KILX 271821 SVSILX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 1221 PM CST SAT DEC 27 2008 ILC057-143-271831- /O.EXP.KILX.TO.W.0066.000000T0000Z-081227T1815Z/ FULTON-PEORIA- 1221 PM CST SAT DEC 27 2008 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN PEORIA AND NORTHEASTERN FULTON COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 1215 PM CST... AT 1216 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM THAT HAD PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. LAT...LON 4075 8973 4058 8970 4050 9007 4065 9013 TIME...MOT...LOC 1751Z 249DEG 35KT 4058 9003 $$ SMITH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 26, 6:11 PM CST | River Flood Warning | ILX | Fulton | 6 days |
| Dec 27, 3:47 AM CST | Wind Advisory | ILX | Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 16 more | 12 hr |
| Dec 27, 3:47 AM CST | Wind Advisory | ILX | Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 16 more | 35 min |
| Dec 27, 3:52 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 3 hr |
| Dec 27, 10:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Fulton, Mason, Menard, Morgan, Schuyler and 1 more | 65 min |
| Dec 27, 11:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Knox, Peoria, Stark | 56 min |
| Dec 27, 11:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Menard, Morgan, Sangamon, Scott | 66 min |
| Dec 27, 12:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Fulton, Logan, McLean, Mason, Menard and 3 more | 58 min |
| Dec 27, 12:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean, Marshall, Peoria, Stark, Tazewell, Woodford | 54 min |
| Dec 27, 12:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Marshall, Peoria, Stark, Woodford | 48 min |
| Dec 27, 12:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, DeWitt, Logan, Macon, Menard, Sangamon and 1 more | 60 min |
| Dec 27, 12:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, DeWitt, Logan, McLean, Macon, Piatt and 3 more | 38 min |
| Dec 27, 12:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Moultrie, Sangamon, Shelby | 66 min |
| Dec 27, 12:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, DeWitt, Logan, McLean, Macon, Piatt and 3 more | 34 min |
| Dec 27, 12:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan, Macon, Sangamon | 31 min |
| Dec 27, 12:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian, Logan, Macon, Sangamon | 37 min |
| Dec 27, 12:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Shelby | 63 min |
| Dec 27, 12:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall, Woodford | 31 min |
| Dec 27, 1:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Coles, Douglas, Edgar, Macon, Moultrie and 3 more | 65 min |
| Dec 27, 1:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign, DeWitt, McLean, Macon, Piatt | 33 min |
| Dec 27, 1:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Macon, Piatt | 44 min |
| Dec 27, 1:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, DeWitt, Macon, Moultrie, Piatt | 41 min |
| Dec 27, 1:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign, DeWitt, Macon, Moultrie, Piatt | 40 min |
| Dec 27, 1:26 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Fulton | 3 hr |
| Dec 27, 1:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon, Moultrie, Shelby | 25 min |
| Dec 27, 1:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Cumberland, Moultrie, Shelby | 60 min |
| Dec 27, 1:49 PM CST | River Flood Warning | ILX | McLean, Tazewell, Woodford | 22 hr |
| Dec 27, 2:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 41 min |
| Dec 27, 2:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Coles, Douglas, Edgar, Moultrie, Vermilion | 34 min |
| Dec 27, 2:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Coles, Cumberland, Effingham, Moultrie, Shelby | 43 min |
| Dec 27, 2:51 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Stark | 3 hr |
| Dec 27, 3:11 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 3 hr |
| Dec 27, 3:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Coles, Douglas, Edgar, Moultrie, Piatt and 1 more | 49 min |
| Dec 27, 3:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar, Effingham | 45 min |
| Dec 27, 3:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Moultrie, Shelby | 24 min |
| Dec 27, 3:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Edgar, Vermilion | 27 min |
| Dec 27, 4:28 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | ILX | Fulton | 12 hr |
| Dec 27, 5:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay | 43 min |
| Dec 27, 5:22 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | ILX | Champaign, Vermilion | 11 hr |
| Dec 27, 5:44 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | ILX | Stark | 6 hr |
| Dec 27, 5:55 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | ILX | Stark | 6 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.