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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Aug 19, 2009, 3:57 PM CDT for Christian County, Illinois. It was in force for 33 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, 3:57 PM CDT (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2009, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Christian County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 107 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 192057 TORILX ILC021-192130- /O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0040.090819T2057Z-090819T2130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 357 PM CDT WED AUG 19 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS... * UNTIL 430 PM CDT. * AT 353 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MORRISONVILLE...OR 13 MILES WEST OF TAYLORVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PALMER... VANDERVILLE... OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...MORRISONVILLE. 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 3936 8954 3950 8954 3956 8934 3935 8919 TIME...MOT...LOC 2057Z 257DEG 17KT 3946 8946 $$ HJS
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KILX 192130 SVSILX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 430 PM CDT WED AUG 19 2009 ILC021-192140- /O.EXP.KILX.TO.W.0040.000000T0000Z-090819T2130Z/ CHRISTIAN IL- 430 PM CDT WED AUG 19 2009 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN CHRISTIAN COUNTY EXPIRES AT 430 PM CDT... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER APPEARED TO BE SEVERE. ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE...AND A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM. LAT...LON 3936 8954 3950 8954 3956 8934 3935 8919 TIME...MOT...LOC 2057Z 257DEG 17KT 3946 8946 $$ 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, 3:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian, Sangamon | 35 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, 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 |
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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.