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Tornado Warning 78, NWS Lincoln, IL

July 13, 2004McLean County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jul 13, 2004, 2:56 PM CDT for McLean County, Illinois. It was in force for 49 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 13, 2004, 2:56 PM CDT (19:56 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2004, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County McLean County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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 13, 3:20 PM CDT	HAIL 1	Towanda, IL	QUARTER SIZE HAIL. REPORTED BY WJBC RADIO.

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 13, 10:55 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 60 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: 1440 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -200 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1045 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KILX 131956
TORILX
ILC113-132045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
300 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MCLEAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 256 PM CDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 17 MILES WEST OF
  GRIDLEY...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF EUREKA...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  GRIDLEY
  LEXINGTON
  PLEASANT HILL
  HOLDER
  ELLSWORTH
  COOKSVILLE
  DOWNS

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE...ANCHOR...ARROWSMITH...
BELLFLOWER...CHENOA...COLFAX...LE ROY AND SAYBROOK.

A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY

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 4098 8874 4089 8895 4032 8887 4032 8849
      4060 8849 4062 8858 4075 8859

$$

BARKER

NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 2:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	McLean	45 min
Jul 13, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Marshall	64 min
Jul 13, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Woodford	61 min
Jul 13, 2:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Woodford	41 min
Jul 13, 2:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	McLean	47 min
Jul 13, 3:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	39 min
Jul 13, 3:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Woodford	44 min
Jul 13, 3:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Vermilion	52 min
Jul 13, 3:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	McLean	49 min
Jul 13, 3:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Piatt	46 min
Jul 13, 4:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	McLean	3 hr
Jul 13, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Edgar	53 min
Jul 13, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign	67 min
Jul 13, 4:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign	41 min
Jul 13, 4:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Champaign	3 hr
Jul 13, 4:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Douglas	40 min
Jul 13, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Piatt	33 min
Jul 13, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Edgar	60 min
Jul 13, 5:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Coles	42 min
Jul 13, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Macon	54 min
Jul 13, 5:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	DeWitt	51 min
Jul 13, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Piatt	62 min
Jul 13, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark	52 min
Jul 13, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Moultrie	61 min
Jul 13, 5:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Moultrie	47 min
Jul 13, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles, Cumberland	55 min
Jul 13, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles, Cumberland	53 min
Jul 13, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Crawford, Lawrence	64 min
Jul 13, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Crawford, Lawrence	63 min
Jul 13, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Jasper	54 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.