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Tornado Warning 28, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2003, 3:59 PM CDT for Marion County, Illinois. It was in force for 31 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, 3:59 PM CDT (20:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2003, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Marion 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| May 8, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 159 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.
593 WFUS53 KLSX 082059 TORLSX ILC121-082130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 359 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MARION COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 359 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR VERNON. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH...AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ALMA KINMUNDY BRUBAKER OMEGA STEPHEN FORBES STATE PARK 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 3884 8914 3865 8914 3858 8870 3882 8872 $$ 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, 3:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Bond, Montgomery | 29 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, 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.