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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Quad Cities, IA

July 5, 2004Whiteside County, Illinois

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this tornado warning at Jul 5, 2004, 9:07 PM CDT for Whiteside County, Illinois. It was in force for 38 min. 1 report 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: Jul 5, 2004, 9:07 PM CDT (02:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2004, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Whiteside County, IL

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:09 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 5, 9:30 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	2 W Tampico, IL

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
Jul 5, 4:20 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 47 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: 1346 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1014 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDVN 060207
TORDVN
ILC195-060245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
906 PM CDT MON JUL 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WHITESIDE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 903 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LIKELY TO PRODUCE A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTH OF
  ERIE...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTH OF MORRISON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  PROPHETSTOWN BY 920 PM CDT
  LYNDON BY 925 PM CDT
  8 MILES NORTHWEST OF TAMPICO BY 930 PM CDT
  8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MORRISON BY 935 PM CDT
  EMERSON...STERLING...ROCK FALLS BY 945 PM CDT

DAMAGING STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS ARE LIKELY IN ADDITION TO TORNADOES.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING
FOR WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 1000 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN IOWA AND NORTHWESTERN
ILLINOIS.

LAT...LON 4178 9022 4159 9014 4160 8965 4192 8965
      4192 8990

$$

LRE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Henry, Mercer, Rock Island	46 min
Jul 5, 8:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Henry	35 min
Jul 5, 9:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Bureau, Henry	50 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.