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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Quad Cities, IA

May 10, 2003Hancock County, McDonough County, Illinois

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2003, 7:29 PM CDT for Hancock County, McDonough County, Illinois. It was in force for 46 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: May 10, 2003, 7:29 PM CDT (00:29 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Hancock County, IL, McDonough County, IL

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 10, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
May 10, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 1566 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 910 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 234 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 259 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.8
Supercell composite: 12.7

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The text

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

881 
WFUS53 KDVN 110029
TORDVN
ILC067-109-110115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
729 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN HANCOCK COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  NORTHWESTERN MCDONOUGH COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 723 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTERS INDICATED A LARGE AND
  POWERFUL TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF WEBSTER...OR 8 MILES EAST OF
  CARTHAGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   TENNESSEE BY 735 PM CDT.
   COLCHESTER BY 740 PM CDT.
   ARGYLE LAKE STATE PARK BY 745 PM CDT.
   SCIOTA BY 755 PM CDT.

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.

THIS TORNADO HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING
FOR EASTERN IOWA AND NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI. A
TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SATURDAY
EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI.

LAT...LON 4045 9110 4030 9098 4045 9062 4062 9077

$$

NICHOLS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 8:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Warren	24 min
May 10, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Mercer	46 min
May 10, 8:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Bureau, Henry	81 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.