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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 2002, 11:04 AM CDT for Clark County, Missouri; Lee County, Iowa. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2002, 11:04 AM CDT (16:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2002, 11:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lee County, IA, Clark County, MO
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:05 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 945 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1012 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KDVN 261604
TORMLI
IAC111-MOC045-261630-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA
1100 AM CDT WED JUN 26 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EASTERN CLARK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI
WESTERN LEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA
* UNTIL 1130 AM CDT
* AT 1100 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTERS INDICATED A LIKELY
TORNADO JUST WEST OF DONNELLSON...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
JUST WEST OF CHARLESTON BY 1110 AM CDT.
JUST WEST OF ARGYLE AND VICENNES BY 1115 AM CDT.
NEAR REVERE BY 1120 AM CDT.
NEAR MONTROSE BY 1125 AM CDT.
NEAR WAYLAND BY 1130 AM CDT.
A TORNADO WAS SPOTTED ON THE GROUND EAST OF BONAPARTE AT 1045 AM BY
A FIRE CHIEF.
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT OR ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM.
LAT...LON 4077 9148 4072 9171 4026 9167 4026 9151
4038 9145 4041 9138
LREThe office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 11:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Clark | 26 min |
| Jun 26, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Buchanan | 40 min |
| Jun 26, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Benton | 49 min |
| Jun 26, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Iowa | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Dubuque, Jackson | 53 min |
| Jun 26, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Johnson | 54 min |
| Jun 26, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Cedar, Johnson, Muscatine | 40 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Missouri, 2002Tornado Warnings in Iowa, 2002Every tornado warning in 2002Tornadoes in 2002
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.