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Tornado Warning 61, NWS St. Louis, MO

July 18, 2003Fayette County, Montgomery County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jul 18, 2003, 5:29 AM CDT for Fayette County, Montgomery County, Illinois. It was in force for 76 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: Jul 18, 2003, 5:29 AM CDT (10:29 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2003, 6:45 AM CDT
In force: 76 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Fayette County, IL, Montgomery County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:30 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
Jul 18, 4:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 2256 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -134 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1630 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 4.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

040 
WFUS53 KLSX 181029
TORLSX
ILC051-135-181145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
526 AM CDT FRI JUL 18 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  EASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 645 AM CDT

* AT 526 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 9 MILES NORTH OF OHLMAN.
  THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 35 MPH...AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT
  ANY TIME

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  OHLMAN
  WENONAH
  NOKOMIS
  RAMSEY
  BAYLE CITY
  SHAFTER
  VANDALIA
  BROWNSTOWN
  SHOBONIER
  ST. PAUL

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.

LAT...LON 3954 8914 3951 8937 3905 8941 3902 8927
          3883 8921 3884 8870

$$

CVKING

The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 18, 4:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Brown	64 min
Jul 18, 5:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Pike	49 min
Jul 18, 6:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Macoupin	39 min
Jul 18, 6:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Greene, Jersey	34 min
Jul 18, 7:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Adams, Brown	49 min
Jul 18, 7:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Brown	4 hr
Jul 18, 7:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Fayette	83 min
Jul 18, 7:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Madison	59 min
Jul 18, 7:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Brown, Pike	41 min
Jul 18, 8:22 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Calhoun, Pike	38 min
Jul 18, 8:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Greene	37 min
Jul 18, 8:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Jersey, Macoupin	40 min
Jul 18, 8:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Calhoun	31 min
Jul 18, 9:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Madison	46 min
Jul 18, 9:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Monroe, Saint Clair	49 min
Jul 18, 10:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Clinton, Washington	43 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.