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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Quad Cities, IA

June 10, 2004Bureau County, Illinois

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2004, 5:29 PM CDT for Bureau County, Illinois. It was in force for 46 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
Jun 10, 2004, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2004, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bureau County, IL

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 164 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2004-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 200 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2004-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 131 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
200 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
794 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
255 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.3

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The text

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

370 
WFUS53 KDVN 102229
TORDVN
ILC011-102315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
529 PM CDT THU JUN 10 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN BUREAU COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 523 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LIKELY TO PRODUCE A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF SHEFFIELD...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF KEWANEE...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  NEPONSET NOW 
  SHEFFIELD BY 540 PM CDT
  BUDA BY 545 PM CDT
  WYANET BY 555 PM CDT
  7 MILES SOUTH OF WALNUT BY 615 PM CDT

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IN A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM
OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING.

LAT...LON 4132 8986 4119 8976 4143 8941 4158 8960

$$

NICHOLS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 5:33 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry, Rock Island42 min
Jun 10, 5:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNPutnam16 min
Jun 10, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBureau45 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.