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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 10, 2003Fulton County, Mason County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2003, 8:45 PM CDT for Fulton County, Mason County, Illinois. It was in force for 60 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, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2003, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Fulton County, IL, Mason County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:47 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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.

416 
WFUS53 KILX 110145
TORILX
ILC057-125-110245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
842 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN MASON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  FULTON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 842 PM CDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO OVER BERNADOTTE...
  OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF LEWISTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
  ALSO...ANOTHER TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF ASTORIA.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  LEWISTOWN
  HAVANA
  CUBA
  ST. DAVID
  CANTON

TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS AT NIGHT BECAUSE THEY ARE HARD TO
SEE. DO NOT REMAIN IN YOUR CAR OR MOBILE HOME. INSTEAD...TAKE COVER
IN A REINFORCED BUILDING. GO TO A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR.

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 4037 9045 4021 9046 4019 9019 4039 8989
          4071 9011

$$

BYRD

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 7:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Schuyler	52 min
May 10, 7:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Fulton, Knox	52 min
May 10, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Effingham	41 min
May 10, 8:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Schuyler	50 min
May 10, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles, Cumberland, Jasper	59 min
May 10, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Knox, Stark	44 min
May 10, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Effingham	59 min
May 10, 9:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Peoria, Tazewell	56 min
May 10, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Schuyler	61 min
May 10, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Schuyler	60 min
May 10, 9:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Mason, Tazewell	60 min
May 10, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton	61 min
May 10, 10:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Woodford	54 min
May 10, 10:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	McLean	70 min
May 10, 10:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Marshall	47 min
May 10, 11:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Woodford	42 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.