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Tornado Warning 61, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 10, 2004Fulton County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2004, 3:12 PM CDT for Fulton County, Illinois. It was in force for 48 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, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2004, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Fulton County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 130 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.

247 
WFUS53 KILX 102012
TORILX
ILC057-102100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FULTON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 311 PM CDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER BRYANT...OR 
  ABOUT 3 MILES NORTH OF LEWISTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE DEVELOPING TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ST. DAVID
  LITTLE AMERICA
  DUNFERMLINE
  CANTON
  BANNER
  NORRIS

FUNNEL CLOUDS WITH THIS STORM MAY TOUCH DOWN AT ANY TIME. DO NOT WAIT
FOR THE FUNNEL CLOUD TO TOUCH DOWN.

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 4044 9022 4039 9016 4046 8991 4063 8988
      4063 8998 4067 9000

$$

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, 2:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	61 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

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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.