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Tornado Warning 46, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 28, 2003McLean County, Tazewell County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at May 28, 2003, 3:20 PM CDT for McLean County, Tazewell County, Illinois. It was in force for 40 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 28, 2003, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2003, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties McLean County, IL, Tazewell County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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 28, 2:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 71 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: 2202 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 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.

676 
WFUS53 KILX 282020
TORILX
ILC113-179-282100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
317 PM CDT WED MAY 28 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN MCLEAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  TAZEWELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 317 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG 
  ROTATION 4 MILES SOUTH OF MACKINAW...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. 
  THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. IN ADDITION TO THE 
  THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS CAN BE 
  EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MACKINAW.
  MINIER.
  HOPEDALL.
  ARMINGTON.
  STANFORD.
  MCLEAN.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES AND HAIL UP TO BASEBALL
SIZE. THE TORNADO IS LIKELY OBSCURED BY RAIN AND MAY NOT BE VISIBLE. 
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA...GO TO A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON 
THE LOWEST FLOOR. DO NOT REMAIN IN YOUR CAR OR MOBILE HOME.

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 4062 8927 4061 8940 4050 8949 4035 8934
          4031 8905

$$

KH

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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 28, 1:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Marshall, Stark	52 min
May 28, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Peoria, Woodford	60 min
May 28, 2:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Tazewell, Woodford	49 min
May 28, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Logan	50 min
May 28, 3:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Logan	28 min
May 28, 3:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	DeWitt	62 min
May 28, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Macon	67 min
May 28, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Moultrie, Piatt, Shelby	52 min
May 28, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Christian, Shelby	45 min
May 28, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Effingham, Shelby	46 min
May 28, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	82 min
May 28, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	76 min
May 28, 6:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	65 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.