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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 7, 2015Champaign County, Douglas County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2015, 9:35 PM CDT for Champaign County, Douglas County, Illinois. It was in force for 25 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 7, 2015, 9:35 PM CDT (02:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2015, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.0 in

Counties Champaign County, IL, Douglas County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 7, 9:53 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 68	2 S Broadlands, IL
Jun 7, 9:53 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 68	6 N Newman, IL	MEASURED 68 MPH WIND GUST. LARGE TREE BRANCHES BLOWN DOWN.

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
Jun 7, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 276 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: 1647 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1064 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

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

161 
WFUS53 KILX 080235
TORILX
ILC019-041-080300-
/O.NEW.KILX.TO.W.0007.150608T0235Z-150608T0300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
935 PM CDT SUN JUN 7 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...
  SOUTHEASTERN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
    
* AT 935 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER VILLA GROVE...OR 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  TUSCOLA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  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...
  BROADLANDS AROUND 950 PM CDT.
  ALLERTON AROUND 955 PM CDT.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
LONGVIEW.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 57 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 215 AND 222.
 
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 3984 8831 3994 8832 3998 8794 3980 8794
TIME...MOT...LOC 0235Z 266DEG 35KT 3986 8821 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN

$$

BAK

1 follow-up statement

956 
WWUS53 KILX 080256
SVSILX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
956 PM CDT SUN JUN 7 2015

ILC019-041-080306-
/O.EXP.KILX.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-150608T0300Z/
DOUGLAS-CHAMPAIGN-
956 PM CDT SUN JUN 7 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN DOUGLAS AND SOUTHEASTERN
CHAMPAIGN COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 1000 PM CDT...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM CDT FOR
EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS.

LAT...LON 3984 8831 3994 8832 3998 8794 3980 8794
TIME...MOT...LOC 0254Z 266DEG 35KT 3986 8821 

$$

BAK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 7:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Fulton, Knox	5 hr
Jun 7, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton, Mason, Peoria, Tazewell	42 min
Jun 7, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Vermilion	52 min
Jun 7, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Schuyler	61 min
Jun 7, 7:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Logan, McLean, Mason, Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford	5 hr
Jun 7, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Logan, McLean, Tazewell	24 min
Jun 7, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Logan, McLean, Mason, Menard, Tazewell	53 min
Jun 7, 8:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	4 hr
Jun 7, 8:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	DeWitt, McLean, Piatt	6 hr
Jun 7, 8:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Logan, Mason, Menard	5 hr
Jun 7, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Vermilion	43 min
Jun 7, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Douglas, Macon, Moultrie, Piatt	36 min
Jun 7, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, Macon, Moultrie, Sangamon, Shelby	45 min
Jun 7, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Coles, Douglas, Edgar, Moultrie, Vermilion	46 min
Jun 7, 9:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	36 min
Jun 7, 9:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Edgar	32 min
Jun 7, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Coles, Cumberland	43 min
Jun 7, 10:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Clark, Coles, Edgar	33 min
Jun 7, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Edgar	30 min
Jun 7, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Crawford, Jasper	46 min
Jun 7, 11:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	9 hr
Jun 7, 11:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Logan, McLean, Mason, Tazewell	6 hr
Jun 8, 12:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Effingham	11 hr
Jun 8, 2:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Clay	8 hr
Jun 8, 3:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ILX	Vermilion	49 hr
Jun 8, 4:39 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ILX	Clay, Richland	29 days
Jun 8, 9:38 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ILX	Piatt	13 days
Jun 8, 9:46 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	4 hr
Jun 8, 10:39 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILX	Effingham	12 hr
Jun 8, 11:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ILX	Cass, Fulton, Mason	61 days
Jun 8, 11:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ILX	Brown, Cass, Morgan, Schuyler	63 days
Jun 8, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cass, Fulton, Mason, Menard	47 min
Jun 8, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	McLean	45 min
Jun 8, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	McLean	46 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.