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Tornado Warning 95, NWS Lincoln, IL

August 26, 2004Fulton County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 2004, 6:54 PM CDT for Fulton County, Illinois. It was in force for 51 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: Aug 26, 2004, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
Expired: Aug 26, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 51 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), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 1377 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KILX 262354
TORILX
ILC057-270045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
654 PM CDT THU AUG 26 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 654 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG
  ROTATION OVER VERMONT...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF RUSHVILLE...
  MOVING NORTH AT 30 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

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  IPAVA
  BERNADOTTE
  DUNCAN MILLS
  LEWISTOWN
  SMITHFIELD
  CUBA
  FIATT
  ELLISVILLE

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 4024 9046 4021 9024 4066 9000 4070 9036

$$

SMITH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 25, 7:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Piatt	6 hr
Aug 25, 7:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Champaign	5 hr
Aug 26, 4:01 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Clay, Effingham	4 hr
Aug 26, 7:56 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Effingham, Jasper	3 hr
Aug 26, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Morgan, Sangamon	63 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.