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Tornado Warning 9, NWS St. Louis, MO

April 26, 1994Macoupin County, Montgomery County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 1994, 9:12 PM CDT for Macoupin County, Montgomery County, Illinois. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 26, 1994, 9:12 PM CDT (02:12 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 1994, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Macoupin County, IL, Montgomery County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 257 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: 2999 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1036 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 10.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSPI 270214
TORSPI
ILC117-135-270245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL
912 PM CDT TUE APR 26 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
 
   ...SOUTHERN MACOUPIN COUNTY...SOUTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY
 
AT 906 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR IN ST. LOUIS DETECTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
LOCATED BETWEEN SHIPMAN AND WOODBURN...55 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF
SPRINGFIELD.
 
THE STORM ASSOCIATED WITH THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE EAST
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND SHOULD MOVE THROUGH THE FOLLOWING TOWNS...BUNKER
HILL...GILLESPIE...MT OLIVE...LITCHFIELD AND HILLSBORO.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH
OF THIS TORNADO...MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE.
OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
POSSIBLE...AND COVER YOUR HEA^D WITH CUSHIONS OR PILLOWS.
 
BYRD

The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Calhoun, Jersey	68 min
Apr 26, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Madison	65 min
Apr 26, 9:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Monroe	48 min
Apr 26, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Clair	47 min
Apr 26, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Randolph	66 min
Apr 26, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Clinton, Washington	61 min
Apr 26, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Bond	45 min
Apr 26, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Fayette	51 min
Apr 26, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Jefferson, Marion	58 min
Apr 27, 12:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Monroe, Saint Clair	42 min
Apr 27, 1:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Clinton, Saint Clair	48 min
Apr 27, 2:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Randolph	50 min
Apr 27, 3:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Perry	43 min
Apr 27, 3:20 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Perry	27 min
Apr 27, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Madison, Saint Clair	47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.