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Tornado Warning 94, NWS Lincoln, IL

August 31, 2003Clark County, Crawford County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Aug 31, 2003, 7:20 PM CDT for Clark County, Crawford County, Illinois. It was in force for 55 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 31, 2003, 7:20 PM CDT (00:20 UTC)
Expired: Aug 31, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Clark County, IL, Crawford County, IL

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 31, 5:25 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 530 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 192 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.

000 
WFUS53 KILX 010020
TORILX
ILC023-033-010115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
719 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CLARK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  CRAWFORD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 719 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG
  ROTATION 7 MILES WEST OF BELLAIR...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  TOLEDO...MOVING EAST AT 20 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...
  BELLAIR
  CASEY
  ORANGE
  ANNAPOLIS
  MARTINSVILLE
  WEST YORK
  WEST UNION
  MARSHALL

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 3932 8759 3921 8758 3914 8767 3910 8795
          3918 8795 3918 8801 3930 8802 3942 8766
          3945 8753 3935 8753

$$

BAK

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 31, 8:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Clark	62 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.