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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Aug 19, 2009, 3:26 PM CDT for Christian County, Sangamon County, Illinois. It was in force for 35 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 19, 2009, 3:26 PM CDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2009, 4:01 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Christian County, IL, Sangamon County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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 19, 12:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 2 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 766 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KILX 192026 TORILX ILC021-167-192115- /O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0038.090819T2026Z-090819T2115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 326 PM CDT WED AUG 19 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS... EASTERN SANGAMON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS... * UNTIL 415 PM CDT. * AT 324 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ROCHESTER...OR 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BERRY... ROBY... MECHANICSBURG... MOUNT AUBURN... ILLIOPOLIS... OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...ROCHESTER. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. 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. && LAT...LON 3989 8923 3974 8922 3968 8956 3979 8955 TIME...MOT...LOC 2026Z 253DEG 17KT 3973 8953 $$ HJS
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KILX 192101 SVSILX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 401 PM CDT WED AUG 19 2009 ILC021-167-192111- /O.CAN.KILX.TO.W.0038.000000T0000Z-090819T2115Z/ CHRISTIAN IL-SANGAMON IL- 401 PM CDT WED AUG 19 2009 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN SANGAMON AND NORTHERN CHRISTIAN COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE...AND A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM. LAT...LON 3989 8923 3974 8922 3968 8956 3979 8955 TIME...MOT...LOC 2101Z 253DEG 17KT 3978 8932 $$ HJS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 1:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 54 min |
| Aug 19, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Fulton, Mason, Morgan, Sangamon, Schuyler and 1 more | 56 min |
| Aug 19, 2:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 42 min |
| Aug 19, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Morgan, Sangamon, Scott | 40 min |
| Aug 19, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Fulton, Logan, Mason, Menard, Morgan and 3 more | 62 min |
| Aug 19, 2:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Morgan, Sangamon | 40 min |
| Aug 19, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Knox, Marshall, Peoria, Stark, Tazewell and 1 more | 66 min |
| Aug 19, 2:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Morgan, Sangamon | 38 min |
| Aug 19, 3:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Logan, Sangamon | 38 min |
| Aug 19, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan, McLean, Piatt, Tazewell, Woodford | 66 min |
| Aug 19, 3:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox, Marshall, Peoria, Stark, Tazewell, Woodford | 57 min |
| Aug 19, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon, Moultrie, Shelby | 38 min |
| Aug 19, 3:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian | 33 min |
| Aug 19, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Macon, Moultrie, Piatt | 65 min |
| Aug 19, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, McLean, Piatt | 39 min |
| Aug 19, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas, McLean, Macon and 3 more | 45 min |
| Aug 19, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | McLean | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas, Edgar, Vermilion | 64 min |
| Aug 19, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper, Moultrie, Shelby | 46 min |
| Aug 19, 5:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 28 min |
| Aug 19, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 32 min |
| Aug 19, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Effingham | 18 min |
| Aug 19, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar | 57 min |
| Aug 19, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Effingham and 2 more | 75 min |
| Aug 19, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Effingham, Shelby | 20 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.