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Tornado Warning 92, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Aug 3, 2003, 7:47 PM CDT for Logan County, Illinois. It was in force for 43 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
- Aug 3, 2003, 7:47 PM CDT (00:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2003, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 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), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 72 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 657 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1415 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
829 WFUS53 KILX 040047 TORILX ILC107-040130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 746 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LOGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 746 PM CDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO OVER HARTSBURG...OR ABOUT 6 MILES WEST OF LINCOLN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LINCOLN MOUNT PULASKI BEASON OTHER LOCATIONS IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE...BROADWELL...ELKHART... EMDEN...LINCOLN AND LAWNDALE. 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 8959 4001 8957 3996 8928 4024 8918 $$ EH NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 59 min |
| Aug 3, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan | 68 min |
| Aug 3, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Logan | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Mason | 42 min |
| Aug 3, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Mason | 40 min |
| Aug 3, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt | 59 min |
| Aug 3, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan | 57 min |
| Aug 3, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon | 56 min |
| Aug 3, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan | 54 min |
| Aug 4, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan | 44 min |
| Aug 4, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 58 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.