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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 19, 2015Clay County, Jasper County, Richland County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2015, 4:45 PM CDT for Clay County, Jasper County, Richland County, Illinois. It was in force for 45 min. 2 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: Jun 19, 2015, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2015, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.0 in

Counties Clay County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Richland County, IL

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 19, 4:45 PM CDT	TORNADO	2 Nw Olney, IL	BRIEF TOUCHDOWN REPORTED BY COUNTY SHERIFF AND STATE POLICE...MINOR DAMAGE DONE TO RETAIL STORE.
Jun 19, 4:50 PM CDT	TORNADO	4 Nnw Olney, IL	TREE LIMBS OF 6 TO 10 INCHES IN DIAMATER BLOWN DOWN AND SOME TREES UPROOTED AT A MOBILE HOME PARK AND GOLF COURSE NORTH OF OLNEY OFF ROUTE 130.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 156 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

471 
WFUS53 KILX 192145
TORILX
ILC025-079-159-192230-
/O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0012.150619T2145Z-150619T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
445 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN RICHLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS...
  NORTHEASTERN CLAY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS...
  SOUTH CENTRAL JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS...

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT
    
* AT 445 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER OLNEY...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE 
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  DUNDAS AROUND 505 PM CDT.
  WEST LIBERTY AROUND 515 PM CDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3876 8801 3870 8815 3885 8830 3893 8809
TIME...MOT...LOC 2145Z 153DEG 11KT 3876 8811 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...0.00IN

$$

AUTEN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 8:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Clay	4 hr
Jun 19, 5:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Coles, Douglas, Moultrie, Shelby	6 hr
Jun 19, 5:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Clay, Effingham, Jasper, Richland	6 hr
Jun 19, 6:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper and 1 more	12 hr
Jun 19, 10:01 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ILX	Lawrence	18 days
Jun 19, 11:34 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILX	Coles, Moultrie, Shelby	6 hr
Jun 19, 11:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILX	Coles, Moultrie, Shelby	12 hr
Jun 19, 1:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Clay, Effingham, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland	5 hr
Jun 19, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Jasper, Richland	47 min
Jun 19, 6:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILX	Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Edgar and 5 more	15 hr

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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.