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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 14, 2003DeWitt County, Piatt County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at May 14, 2003, 7:02 PM CDT for DeWitt County, Piatt County, Illinois. It was in force for 58 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, 7:02 PM CDT (00:02 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties DeWitt County, IL, Piatt County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 21 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: 1529 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1142 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 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.

234 
WFUS53 KILX 150002
TORILX
ILC039-147-150100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PIATT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  DE WITT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 700 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
  WITH POSSIBLE TORNADOES EXTENDING FROM MANSFIELD TO CLINTON
  ...OR FROM 14 MILES   NORTHWEST OF CHAMPAIGN TO 5 MILES 
  SOUTH OF CLINTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS LINE OF 
  STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING NUMEROUS FUNNEL CLOUDS AND
  BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS. 

* THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WELDON
  MANSFIELD
  DE LAND
  WHITE HEATH
  MONTICELLO
  BEMENT

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 4022 8915 4007 8914 4007 8875 3992 8874
          3991 8848 4029 8847

$$

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, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	60 min
May 14, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton, Knox	58 min
May 14, 7:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Macon	46 min
May 14, 7:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Douglas, Edgar	54 min
May 14, 7:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign, Piatt	46 min
May 14, 8:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Fulton, Mason	41 min
May 14, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Morgan, Scott	58 min
May 14, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Coles, Edgar	37 min
May 14, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Cumberland	39 min
May 14, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Effingham	46 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.