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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 2015, 3:53 AM CDT for Woodford County, Illinois. It was in force for 22 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
- Apr 8, 2015, 3:53 AM CDT (08:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2015, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Woodford County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -341 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 884 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
779
WUUS53 KILX 080853
SVRILX
ILC203-080915-
/O.NEW.KILX.SV.W.0002.150408T0853Z-150408T0915Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
353 AM CDT WED APR 8 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN WOODFORD COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS...
* UNTIL 415 AM CDT
* AT 347 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ROANOKE...
AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MINONK AND PANOLA.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 39 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 19 AND 28
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4092 8892 4079 8892 4077 8922 4093 8923
4093 8894
TIME...MOT...LOC 0853Z 262DEG 29KT 4087 8911
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
115
WWUS53 KILX 080908
SVSILX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
408 AM CDT WED APR 8 2015
ILC203-080918-
/O.EXP.KILX.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-150408T0915Z/
WOODFORD IL-
408 AM CDT WED APR 8 2015
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN WOODFORD COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 415 AM CDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.
LAT...LON 4092 8892 4079 8892 4077 8922 4093 8923
4093 8894
TIME...MOT...LOC 0908Z 262DEG 29KT 4088 8895
$$
SMITHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 1:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Marshall, Stark | 55 min |
| Apr 8, 1:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Knox | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 2:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Marshall, Stark | 61 min |
| Apr 8, 3:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Marshall | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 3:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall | 27 min |
| Apr 8, 3:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Woodford | 64 min |
| Apr 8, 3:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Mason, Tazewell | 46 min |
| Apr 8, 4:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Macon | 43 min |
| Apr 8, 4:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Peoria, Woodford | 61 min |
| Apr 8, 4:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean, Tazewell, Woodford | 66 min |
| Apr 8, 4:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford | 16 min |
| Apr 8, 4:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | DeWitt | 64 min |
| Apr 8, 5:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan, McLean, Piatt | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 5:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Piatt | 44 min |
| Apr 8, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign | 36 min |
| Apr 8, 6:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 45 min |
| Apr 8, 6:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Coles, Edgar | 56 min |
| Apr 8, 6:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILX | Coles | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 7:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles | 28 min |
| Apr 8, 1:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 1:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Lawrence, Richland | 42 min |
| Apr 8, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Lawrence, Richland | 35 min |
| Apr 8, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, McLean | 26 min |
| Apr 8, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Lawrence, Richland | 17 min |
| Apr 8, 3:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ILX | Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 7 more | 32 hr |
| Apr 8, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Lawrence | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 4:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Lawrence, Richland | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 4:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Richland | 60 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.