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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Quad Cities, IA

April 30, 2003Putnam County, Illinois

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 2003, 10:15 PM CDT for Putnam County, Illinois. It was in force for 45 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: Apr 30, 2003, 10:15 PM CDT (03:15 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2003, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Putnam County, IL

The radar

The Chicago radar (KLOT), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 30, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 1022 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 839 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 457 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 611 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 12.6

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The text

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

881 
WFUS53 KDVN 010315
TORDVN
ILC155-010400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1015 PM CDT WED APR 30 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PUTNAM COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 11 PM CDT

* AT 1009 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTH OF   
  FLORID...OR 4 MILES SOUTH OF HENNEPIN...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.  IN 
  ADDITION...STRONG STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS OF 60 MPH OR MORE WILL OCCUR 
  OVER MUCH OF THE COUNTY.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   STANDARD BY 1015 PM CDT.

NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS BECAUSE THEY ARE 
DIFFICULT TO SEE. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU ARE IN PUTNAM COUNTY

LAT...LON 4126 8934 4112 8932 4112 8918 4130 8918

$$

WOLF

The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 30, 7:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Henry	55 min
Apr 30, 8:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	Mercer	5 hr
Apr 30, 8:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Henry	38 min
Apr 30, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Rock Island	50 min
Apr 30, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Mercer	39 min
Apr 30, 8:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Bureau	61 min
Apr 30, 8:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Bureau	50 min
Apr 30, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Henry	58 min
Apr 30, 9:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	Henry	5 hr
Apr 30, 9:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Putnam	38 min
Apr 30, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Henderson	48 min
Apr 30, 9:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Bureau	57 min
Apr 30, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Warren	43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.