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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Lincoln, IL

November 10, 2002Cumberland County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 11:48 AM CST for Cumberland County, Illinois. It was in force for 57 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: Nov 10, 2002, 11:48 AM CST (17:48 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 2002, 12:45 PM CST
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cumberland County, IL

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 10, 11:10 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 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: 302 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 836 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KILX 101748
TORSPI
ILC035-101845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
1147 AM CST SUN NOV 10 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1245 PM CST

* AT 1147 AM CST...RADAR INDICATED TWO POTENTIAL TORNADOES. ONE
  LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF JANESVILLE AND ANOTHER JUST WEST OF TOLEDO. 
  BOTH WERE MOVING NORTHEAST ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR. 

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  TOLEDO
  JANESVILLE
  GREENUP
  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 3921 8844 3919 8803 3937 8803 3937 8832

$$
FRIEDERS

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 10, 11:39 AM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Clark, Coles, Edgar	66 min
Nov 10, 11:48 AM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Cumberland	57 min
Nov 10, 12:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Jasper	60 min
Nov 10, 1:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Crawford	63 min

Nearby

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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.