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Tornado Warning 26, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2003, 3:16 PM CDT for Bond County, Montgomery County, Illinois. It was in force for 29 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 8, 2003, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2003, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bond County, IL, Montgomery County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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 8, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 797 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
252 WFUS53 KLSX 082016 TORLSX ILC005-135-082045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 316 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BOND COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS SOUTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 316 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR SORENTO. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH...AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WOBURN COFFEEN VAN BURENSBURG MULBERRY GROVE CHAPMAN FILLMORE IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW MOVE TO A BASEMENT...UNDERGROUND STORM SHELTER...OR AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF A STURDY BUILDING. IF YOU LIVE IN A MOBILE HOME OR TRAILER...ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK SHELTER IN A MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3922 8971 3896 8967 3891 8926 3923 8927 $$ TRUETT
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 1:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Calhoun | 3 hr |
| May 8, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Jersey | 50 min |
| May 8, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin, Montgomery | 52 min |
| May 8, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin, Montgomery | 49 min |
| May 8, 3:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Macoupin, Montgomery | 28 min |
| May 8, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette | 64 min |
| May 8, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 48 min |
| May 8, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Bond, Fayette | 49 min |
| May 8, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Randolph, Saint Clair | 62 min |
| May 8, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Marion | 31 min |
| May 8, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison | 57 min |
| May 8, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 66 min |
| May 8, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette | 31 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.