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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this tornado warning at Aug 22, 2001, 6:09 PM CDT for McDonough County, Illinois. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 2001, 6:09 PM CDT (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County McDonough County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 6:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Fandon, IL | A trained spotter reported numerous large trees down near Fandon |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 803 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1904 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
081 WFUS53 KDVN 222311 TORMLI ILC109-230000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 609 PM CDT WED AUG 22 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MCDONOUGH COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MCDONOUGH COUNTY * AT 607 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION AND A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER FANDON...OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MACOMB...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... FANDON BY 610 PM CDT. INDUSTRY BY 625 PM CDT. 5 MILES SOUTH OF PENNINGTON POINT BY 630 PM CDT. 6 MILES SOUTH OF ADAIR BY 635 PM CDT. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR EAST CENTRAL IOWA AND NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS. LAT...LON 4059 9083 4026 9088 4031 9047 4061 9050 $$ JDH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Hancock, McDonough | 53 min |
| Aug 22, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Hancock | 44 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.