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Tornado Warning 84, NWS Lincoln, IL

July 13, 2004DeWitt County, Piatt County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jul 13, 2004, 3:59 PM CDT for DeWitt County, Piatt County, Illinois. It was in force for 46 min. 4 reports 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, 3:59 PM CDT (20:59 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2004, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties DeWitt County, IL, Piatt County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 13, 4:00 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Farmer City, IL	POWER LINES AND TREE LIMBS DOWN. REPORTED BY ESDA.
Jul 13, 4:14 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	W Mansfield, IL	SEMI BLOWN OVER ON I-74
Jul 13, 4:17 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Mansfield, IL	CAR FLIPPED OVER AND SEVERAL TREES DOWN. TREE FELL ON HOUSE...VICTIM CURRENTLY TRAPPED.
Jul 13, 4:45 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	White Heath, IL	TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

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, 3:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 7 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 132059
TORILX
ILC039-147-132145-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PIATT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  DE WITT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 359 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG
  ROTATION 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF DE WITT...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF
  BLOOMINGTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE
  A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...
  LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GO
  TO A SAFE PLACE NOW

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  DE WITT
  FARMER CITY
  WELDON
  DE LAND
  MANSFIELD
  LODGE
  MONTICELLO
  WHITE HEATH

ANOTHER LOCATION IN THIS WARNING IS...BEMENT.

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 4028 8866 4028 8904 3984 8848 4028 8849

$$

BARKER

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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, 2:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	McLean	49 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, 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

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.