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Tornado Warning 60, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 10, 2004Champaign County, Vermilion County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2004, 2:59 PM CDT for Champaign County, Vermilion County, Illinois. It was in force for 61 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, 2:59 PM CDT (19:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2004, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Champaign County, IL, Vermilion County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 67 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: 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.

781 
WFUS53 KILX 101959
TORILX
ILC019-183-102100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
258 PM CDT THU JUN 10 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  VERMILION COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 258 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER HOMER...
  OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHAMPAIGN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  SIDELL
  JAMAICA
  FAIRMOUNT
  INDIANOLA
  CATLIN
  WESTVILLE
  GEORGETOWN
  TILTON

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE...ALLERTON AND BROADLANDS.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD
BE ABANDONED FOR A SAFER SHELTER.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR ANY STORM DAMAGE TO YOUR LOCAL ESDA...OR THE
NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

LAT...LON 4006 8804 3988 8803 3990 8754 4013 8753

$$

PLAHMER

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 2:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Fulton	41 min
Jun 10, 3:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Fulton	48 min
Jun 10, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Peoria	55 min
Jun 10, 3:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	63 min
Jun 10, 4:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	McLean	58 min
Jun 10, 4:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Tazewell	46 min
Jun 10, 5:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Woodford	58 min
Jun 10, 5:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	McLean, Woodford	65 min
Jun 10, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Logan	60 min
Jun 10, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Tazewell	55 min
Jun 10, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt	64 min
Jun 10, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	McLean	61 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.