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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Lincoln, IL

July 22, 2002Cumberland County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 2002, 9:08 PM CDT for Cumberland County, Illinois. It was in force for 37 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: Jul 22, 2002, 9:08 PM CDT (02:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2002, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cumberland County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 3265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 902 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.3

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The text

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

998 
WFUS53 KILX 230208
TORSPI
ILC035-230245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
907 PM CDT MON JUL 22 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 907 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG
  ROTATION OVER TOLEDO...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM COULD
  PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A
  TORNADO...DAMAGING WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GO TO
  A SAFE PLACE NOW

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  GREENUP
  JEWETT
  HAZEL DELL

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD
BE ABANDONED FOR A SAFER SHELTER.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR ANY STORM DAMAGE TO YOUR LOCAL ESDA...OR THE
NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

LAT...LON 3938 8830 3923 8843 3919 8835 3919 8801
          3931 8803

BARKER

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Sangamon	36 min
Jul 22, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Macon	46 min
Jul 22, 8:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	McLean	4 hr
Jul 22, 8:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Douglas	6 hr
Jul 22, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles, Cumberland	67 min
Jul 22, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark	38 min
Jul 22, 9:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Edgar	4 hr
Jul 22, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Crawford	39 min
Jul 22, 10:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Richland	4 hr

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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.