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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 10:27 PM CDT for McDonough County, Illinois. It was in force for 33 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2004, 10:27 PM CDT (03:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2004, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County McDonough County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 11:06 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 2 N Table Grove, IL | 60+ MPH WINDS...REPORTED BY TABLE GROVE FIRE DEPT. |
| May 24, 11:06 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 2 N Table Grove, IL | 60+ MPH WINDS...REPORTED BY TABLE GROVE FIRE DEPT. |
| May 24, 11:06 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 2 N Table Grove, IL | 60+ MPH WINDS...REPORTED BY TABLE GROVE FIRE DEPT. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 24, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -246 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1872 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDVN 250327 TORDVN ILC109-250400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 1028 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN MCDONOUGH COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 1020 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LIKELY TO PRODUCE A TORNADO NEAR INDUSTRY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF MACOMB...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ADAIR BY 1045 PM CDT 8 MILES SOUTH OF NEW PHILADELPHIA BY 1055 PM CDT TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AND ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST IOWA AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI. LAT...LON 4038 9077 4021 9069 4036 8996 4061 9008 $$ ERVIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 9:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Hancock | 41 min |
| May 24, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Hancock, McDonough | 42 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.