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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2011, 6:29 PM CDT for Christian County, Shelby County, Illinois. It was in force for 46 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
- Apr 19, 2011, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2011, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Christian County, IL, Shelby County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 6:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Taylorville, IL | SIDING RIPPED OFF SOME BUILDINGS ON CHEROKEE STREET |
| Apr 19, 6:40 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Taylorville, IL | RAIL CARS BLOW OFF TRACKS |
| Apr 19, 6:54 PM CDT | TORNADO | Taylorville, IL | ILLINOIS SR 104 AND ILLINOIS SR 29 BARN DESTROYED AND LOTS OF DEBRIS ON ROAD |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 453 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 345 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
862 WFUS53 KILX 192329 TORILX ILC021-173-200015- /O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0014.110419T2329Z-110420T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 629 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS... CENTRAL SHELBY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS... * UNTIL 715 PM CDT. * AT 625 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF MORRISONVILLE...OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TAYLORVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... TAYLORVILLE...PANA...ASSUMPTION...TOWER HILL...WESTERVELT... VANDERVILLE...OWANECO AND ROSAMOND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 3961 8883 3936 8884 3936 8936 3952 8938 TIME...MOT...LOC 2329Z 271DEG 44KT 3945 8930 $$ CHURCHILL
2 follow-up statements
605 WWUS53 KILX 192338 SVSILX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 638 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2011 ILC021-173-200015- /O.CON.KILX.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-110420T0015Z/ SHELBY IL-CHRISTIAN IL- 638 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL CHRISTIAN AND CENTRAL SHELBY COUNTIES UNTIL 715 PM CDT... AT 634 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF TAYLORVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PANA...ASSUMPTION...TOWER HILL...WESTERVELT AND ROSAMOND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 3938 8926 3951 8927 3961 8883 3936 8884 TIME...MOT...LOC 2337Z 271DEG 44KT 3945 8919 $$ CHURCHILL
655 WWUS53 KILX 200010 SVSILX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 710 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2011 ILC021-173-200020- /O.EXP.KILX.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-110420T0015Z/ SHELBY IL-CHRISTIAN IL- 710 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2011 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL CHRISTIAN AND CENTRAL SHELBY COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 715 PM CDT... 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 9 PM. LAT...LON 3938 8926 3951 8927 3961 8883 3936 8884 TIME...MOT...LOC 0010Z 271DEG 44KT 3944 8867 $$ CHURCHILL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 5:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Menard, Morgan, Sangamon, Scott | 90 min |
| Apr 19, 5:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Morgan, Scott | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 5:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 55 min |
| Apr 19, 8:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Cumberland, Effingham, Moultrie, Shelby | 40 min |
| Apr 19, 8:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham | 27 min |
| Apr 19, 8:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Effingham, Shelby | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 9:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Jasper | 52 min |
| Apr 19, 9:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Cumberland, Effingham, Shelby | 40 min |
| Apr 19, 9:28 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILX | Coles, Cumberland, Effingham, Shelby | 4 hr |
| Apr 19, 9:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Edgar | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 9:53 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILX | Clark, Coles, Edgar | 3 hr |
| Apr 19, 12:55 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ILX | Fulton, Mason | 84 days |
| Apr 19, 12:55 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ILX | Brown, Cass, Morgan, Schuyler | 86 days |
| Apr 19, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Fulton, Mason, Schuyler | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 52 min |
| Apr 19, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Sangamon | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 33 min |
| Apr 19, 5:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Peoria | 43 min |
| Apr 19, 5:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Knox, Stark | 51 min |
| Apr 19, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Menard, Sangamon | 34 min |
| Apr 19, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian, Sangamon | 36 min |
| Apr 19, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall, Peoria | 31 min |
| Apr 19, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian | 25 min |
| Apr 19, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon | 32 min |
| Apr 19, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian | 21 min |
| Apr 19, 6:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Shelby | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Macon, Piatt | 36 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.