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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 14, 2003Logan County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at May 14, 2003, 6:18 PM CDT for Logan 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: May 14, 2003, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2003, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Logan County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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 14, 1:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 68 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1154 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 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.

045 
WFUS53 KILX 142318
TORILX
ILC107-150015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
616 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 616 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF TORNADO
  PRODUCING STORMS FROM EMDEN TO 5 MILES EAST OF ATLANTA...OR
  11 MILES NORTH OF LINCOLN TO 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF 
  CLINTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HARTSBURG
  LINCOLN
  LAWNDALE
  ATLANTA
  BEASON
  MIDDLETOWN

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 4032 8961 4007 8960 4006 8917 4028 8916
          4028 8928 4033 8928

$$

GOETSCH

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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 14, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Stark	26 min
May 14, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Marshall, Stark	60 min
May 14, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Peoria	50 min
May 14, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Woodford	50 min
May 14, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Marshall	30 min
May 14, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Tazewell	38 min
May 14, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	McLean	44 min
May 14, 5:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	McLean	42 min
May 14, 6:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	56 min
May 14, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Piatt	47 min
May 14, 6:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	McLean	61 min
May 14, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cass, Mason, Schuyler	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.