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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 10, 2003Woodford County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2003, 10:06 PM CDT for Woodford County, Illinois. It was in force for 54 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, 10:06 PM CDT (03:06 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2003, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Woodford County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 2426 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 784 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 257 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.2
Supercell composite: 17.1

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The text

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

200 
WFUS53 KILX 110306
TORILX
ILC203-110400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
1003 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WOODFORD COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 1003 PM CDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 16 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF EUREKA...OR ABOUT 3 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF MORTON...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  GERMANTOWN HILLS
  METAMORA
  EUREKA
  METAMORA
  ROANOKE
  SECOR

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 4076 8952 4077 8932 4063 8931 4078 8897
          4093 8923 4086 8950

$$

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, 8:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Fulton, Mason	60 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, 10:35 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.