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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 26, 2010, 6:49 AM CDT for 9 counties in Illinois. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 26, 2010, 6:49 AM CDT (11:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 2010, 7:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Clark County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Richland County, IL
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 3:28 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 341 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
- 158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 857 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 357 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 405 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 26, 6:33 AM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 26, 6:33 AM CDT, 16 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 832 PM CDT MON OCT 25 2010 ILZ027>031-036>038-040>044-047>054-061-261100- CASS-CHRISTIAN-DE WITT-FULTON-KNOX-LOGAN-MACON-MARSHALL-MASON- MCLEAN-MENARD-MORGAN-MOULTRIE-PEORIA-PIATT-SANGAMON-SCHUYLER- SCOTT-SHELBY-STARK-TAZEWELL-WOODFORD- 832 PM CDT MON OCT 25 2010 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM TO 7 PM CDT TUESDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS...AS FAR EAST AS THE I-57 CORRIDOR. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER OVERNIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AHEAD OF A STRONG AND FAST MOVING COLD FRONT. WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 TO 80 MPH WILL BE A SIGNIFICANT THREAT...ALONG WITH ISOLATED TORNADOES. OUTSIDE OF THE STORMS...WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS 40 MPH ARE LIKELY AFTER MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY STILL BE IN THE AREA AT SUNRISE TUESDAY... MAINLY FROM FROM HIGHWAY 51 EAST...BEFORE THE COLD FRONT MOVES INTO INDIANA BY LATE MORNING. THE STORMS THEMSELVES WILL STILL BE AT RISK OF PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE. ONCE THE FRONT CLEARS THE AREA...VERY WINDY CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP. SUSTAINED WINDS IN THE 25 TO 35 MPH RANGE WILL BE COMMON...WITH GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MPH AT TIMES. AFTER A BRIEF LULL TUESDAY NIGHT...WINDY CONDITIONS ARE AGAIN LIKELY ON WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING... BETWEEN 3 AM AND 9 AM. ILZ045-046-055>057-062-063-066>068-071>073-261100- CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-CLAY-COLES-CRAWFORD-CUMBERLAND-DOUGLAS-EDGAR- EFFINGHAM-JASPER-LAWRENCE-RICHLAND-VERMILION- 832 PM CDT MON OCT 25 2010 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM TO 7 PM CDT TUESDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS...FROM I-57 EASTWARD. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE TONIGHT. A LINE OF STORMS WILL BE APPROACHING THE AREA TOWARD SUNRISE. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. AHEAD OF THE STORMS...WIND GUSTS MAY APPROACH 40 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE STORMS EXISTS FOR TUESDAY MORNING... ESPECIALLY CLOSE TO THE INDIANA BORDER. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL RACE ACROSS THE AREA...AND WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS. ONCE THE FRONT CLEARS THE AREA...VERY WINDY CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP. SUSTAINED WINDS IN THE 25 TO 35 MPH RANGE WILL BE COMMON...WITH GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MPH AT TIMES. AFTER A LULL TUESDAY NIGHT...WINDY CONDITIONS ARE AGAIN EXPECTED ON WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY TUESDAY MORNING...GENERALLY BETWEEN 5 AM AND 10 AM. && THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGIC AND CLIMATE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/LINCOLN. THIS ADDRESS IS ALL IN LOWER CASE. GEELHART
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 26, 6:14 AM CDT, 35 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Schuyler | 38 min |
| Oct 26, 1:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 49 min |
| Oct 26, 2:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 44 min |
| Oct 26, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 23 min |
| Oct 26, 2:56 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | ILX | Champaign, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar, Knox, McLean and 7 more | 12 hr |
| Oct 26, 3:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 24 min |
| Oct 26, 3:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 43 min |
| Oct 26, 3:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Knox, Peoria | 34 min |
| Oct 26, 4:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox, Peoria, Stark | 36 min |
| Oct 26, 4:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Fulton, Mason, Menard | 48 min |
| Oct 26, 4:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Peoria | 25 min |
| Oct 26, 4:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Logan, Morgan, Sangamon | 54 min |
| Oct 26, 4:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall, Peoria, Stark, Tazewell, Woodford | 46 min |
| Oct 26, 6:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Effingham, Jasper and 2 more | 51 min |
| Oct 26, 6:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clay | 24 min |
| Oct 26, 7:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Lawrence | 20 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010
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.