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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Lincoln, IL

February 5, 2008Crawford County, Lawrence County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Feb 5, 2008, 7:30 PM CST for Crawford County, Lawrence County, Illinois. It was in force for 30 min. 2 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: Feb 5, 2008, 7:30 PM CST (01:30 UTC)
Expired: Feb 5, 2008, 8:00 PM CST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Crawford County, IL, Lawrence County, IL

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Feb 5, 7:35 PM CST	HAIL 0.88	2 E Lawrenceville, IL
Feb 5, 7:39 PM CST	TSTM WND GST 63	Lawrenceville, IL	ASOS WIND 25033G55KT

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 181 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 449 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 92 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 474 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 387 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KILX 060130
TORILX
ILC033-101-060200-
/O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0009.080206T0130Z-080206T0200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
730 PM CST TUE FEB 5 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS...
  SOUTHEASTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...

* UNTIL 800 PM CST.

* AT 730 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF LAWRENCEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BIRDS...
  FLAT ROCK...
  PALESTINE...

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BRIDGEPORT.

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 3866 8758 3865 8761 3864 8761 3859 8767
      3859 8792 3909 8762 3872 8750
TIME...MOT...LOC 0130Z 226DEG 54KT 3880 8767

$$

SMITH

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KILX 060153
SVSILX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
752 PM CST TUE FEB 5 2008

ILC033-101-060202-
/O.EXP.KILX.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-080206T0200Z/
CRAWFORD-LAWRENCE-
752 PM CST TUE FEB 5 2008

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN CRAWFORD AND LAWRENCE
COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 800 PM CST...

AT 851 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED THAT
THE THUNDERSTORM THAT HAD PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF THE
AREA...THUS THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

LAT...LON 3866 8758 3865 8761 3864 8761 3859 8767
      3859 8792 3909 8762 3872 8750
TIME...MOT...LOC 0152Z 226DEG 54KT 3903 8736

$$

SMITH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 5, 6:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay	24 min
Feb 5, 6:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper, Shelby	28 min
Feb 5, 6:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Clay, Crawford, Cumberland, Edgar, Effingham and 3 more	40 min
Feb 5, 6:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Clay, Jasper, Richland	32 min
Feb 5, 6:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Clay, Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland	37 min
Feb 5, 6:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Clark, Crawford, Cumberland, Jasper	37 min
Feb 5, 7:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar	43 min
Feb 5, 7:45 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Clark, Clay, Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland	6 hr
Feb 5, 8:43 PM CST	River Flood Warning	ILX	Cass, Mason, Menard	7 days
Feb 5, 8:43 PM CST	River Flood Warning	ILX	Cass, Mason	9 days
Feb 5, 8:45 PM CST	River Flood Warning	ILX	Mason, Menard	66 hr
Feb 5, 11:03 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Champaign, Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar, Effingham and 4 more	3 hr
Feb 6, 3:05 AM CST	River Flood Warning	ILX	Fulton, Mason	88 days
Feb 6, 3:05 AM CST	River Flood Warning	ILX	Brown, Cass, Morgan, Schuyler	93 days
Feb 6, 9:41 AM CST	River Flood Warning	ILX	McLean, Tazewell, Woodford	55 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.