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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2004, 6:15 PM CDT for Bureau County, Illinois. It was in force for 45 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, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2004, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 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), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
048 WFUS53 KDVN 102315 TORDVN ILC011-110000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 613 PM CDT THU JUN 10 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BUREAU COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 609 PM CDT...TRAINED SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR 1 MILE SOUTHWEST OF WYANET...OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF PRINCETON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS TORNADO HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGE TO HOUSES. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... WYANET BY 620 PM CDT 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF PRINCETON BY 650 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. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS WARNING IN EFFECT FOR BUREAU COUNTY. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR EAST CENTRAL IOWA AND NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS. LAT...LON 4137 8979 4125 8962 4159 8912 4161 8949 $$ NICHOLS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Bureau | 46 min |
| Jun 10, 5:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Henry, Rock Island | 42 min |
| Jun 10, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Putnam | 16 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.