1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jan 2, 2:50 AM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 250 AM CST MON JAN 02 2006 .DISCUSSION... MAIN CHALLENGES WITH THIS FORECAST PACKAGE WILL BE POPS TODAY AND TONIGHT...AND AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY WITH NEXT APPROACHING SYSTEM. LATEST SURFACE CHART SHOWS 993MB LOW CENTERED OVER WESTERN MISSOURI...WITH WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY STRETCHING NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS. ALOFT...VIGOROUS UPPER LOW PUSHING INTO MISSOURI...WITH IMPRESSIVE MID-LEVEL DRY SLOT NOSING INTO WESTERN ILLINOIS. FURTHER WEST...NEXT SYSTEM OF INTEREST NOTED ON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY WELL OFF THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHORE. SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY DEVELOPING ACROSS MISSOURI IN ASSOCIATION WITH UPPER LOW AND 95KT 300MB JET STREAK. STORMS WILL RAPIDLY SPREAD NORTHEASTWARD INTO CENTRAL ILLINOIS EARLY THIS MORNING...WITH ACTIVITY SHIFTING EASTWARD INTO INDIANA BY AROUND MIDDAY. WILL GO WITH OCCASIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE BOARD THIS MORNING...TAPERING TO LIKELY SHOWERS BY AFTERNOON. SURFACE LOW EXPECTED TO TRACK ACROSS THE KILX CWA TODAY...REACHING WEST-CENTRAL INDIANA BY 00Z TUE. CAA ON BACKSIDE OF DEPARTING LOW WILL BEGIN TO AFFECT THE AREA LATER TODAY...SO WILL LIKELY SEE HIGH TEMPS ACHIEVED EARLY...WITH SLOWLY FALLING READINGS DURING THE AFTERNOON. TEMPS ACROSS THE FAR NORTH WILL REMAIN NEARLY STEADY IN THE UPPER 40S/LOWER 50S THIS MORNING...AS WARM FRONT REMAINS ALONG AND NORTH OF I-74. MEANWHILE...TEMPS WILL LIKELY RISE A FEW DEGREES FURTHER SOUTH...WITH READINGS HITTING THE UPPER 50S AND LOWER 60S ALONG AND SOUTH OF I-72. TEMPS LIKELY TO SLIP BACK INTO THE 40S ACROSS ALL BUT THE FAR E AND SE CWA LATE THIS AFTERNOON...WITH THE BEST CAA HOLDING OFF UNTIL AFTER DARK. WRAP-AROUND MOISTURE LIKELY TO PERSIST INTO THE EVENING...AS SYSTEM SLOWLY PULLS EASTWARD. MODELS HAVE TRENDED A BIT SLOWER OVER THE PAST FEW RUNS...SO WILL MAINTAIN 30 POPS ACROSS THE EAST THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. FORECAST SOUNDINGS REMAIN WARM ENOUGH FOR LIQUID PRECIP...SO HAVE PULLED ANY MENTION OF SNOW FROM THE FORECAST. AFTER A QUIET DAY ON TUESDAY...NEXT WEATHER-MAKER APPROACHES ON WEDNESDAY. MODELS IN RELATIVELY POOR AGREEMENT...WITH THE NAM BEING THE FURTHEST NORTH WITH THE SHORT-WAVE AND ASSOCIATED SURFACE REFLECTION AND THE UKMET BEING THE FURTHEST SOUTH. ECMWF/CANADIAN/GFS REPRESENT A COMPROMISE BETWEEN THE TWO. PREFER THE SOUTHERN UKMET SOLUTION...AS IT PANNED OUT QUITE WELL WITH THE PREVIOUS SYSTEM. BOTTOM LINE WILL MEAN A WEAK AREA OF LOW PRESSURE TRACKING ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS ON WEDNESDAY...LIKELY ACCOMPANIED BY SCATTERED SHOWERS. BEST FOCUS FOR RAINS WILL BE A BIT FURTHER NORTH OF THE LOW TRACK...SO WILL HIT POPS HARDEST ACROSS THE NORTHERN CWA. STRONG CAA BEHIND DEPARTING LOW WILL RESULT IN ANY RESIDUAL PRECIP CHANGING OVER TO LIGHT SNOW BY WEDNESDAY NIGHT. LONG TERM...THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... NOT MANY CHANGES IN THE EXTENDED...AS MODELS CONTINUE TO ADVERTISE BROAD UPPER TROUGHING ACROSS THE EASTERN CONUS BY THE END OF THE WEEK. TEMPS TO RETURN TO NEAR NORMAL VALUES THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...WITH SOME MODERATION NOTED BY LATE IN THE WEEKEND. && .ILX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && BARNES
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 630 AM CST MON JAN 2 2006 ILZ027>031-036>038-040>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-031200- KNOX-STARK-PEORIA-MARSHALL-WOODFORD-FULTON-TAZEWELL-MCLEAN- SCHUYLER-MASON-LOGAN-DE WITT-PIATT-CHAMPAIGN-VERMILION-CASS- MENARD-SCOTT-MORGAN-SANGAMON-CHRISTIAN-MACON-MOULTRIE-DOUGLAS- COLES-EDGAR-SHELBY-CUMBERLAND-CLARK-EFFINGHAM-JASPER-CRAWFORD- CLAY-RICHLAND-LAWRENCE- 630 AM CST MON JAN 2 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS...EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT LOW PRESSURE WILL TRACK ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS TODAY...AIDING IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL. THE STORMS WILL PUSH EAST OF THE REGION BY AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
708 AM CST MON JAN 02 2006
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0647 AM HAIL 2 W TREMONT 40.53N 89.53W
01/02/2006 0.75 INCH TAZEWELL IL TRAINED SPOTTER
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SCHAFFERThe Lincoln radar (KILX), 73 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:19 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A microburst caused an 8 mile long swath of damage from west of Auburn to Chatham. The winds caused damage to pole barns and trees in rural areas, with minor damage to several homes in Chatham.
A tornado briefly touched down, destroyed a 40' by 60' pole barn and blew down a few large tree limbs. Debris from the tornado broke a window in a house on the property.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Illinois in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Illinois, 2006Warnings in Illinois, January 2006
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5486529, 5486530.