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Tornado Warning 10, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 24, 2004Adams County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 11:06 PM CDT for Adams County, Illinois. It was in force for 24 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
May 24, 2004, 11:06 PM CDT (04:06 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2004, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Adams County, IL

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:07 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 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 216 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2004-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 150 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2004-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
150 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-246 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1872 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
112 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.

605 
WFUS53 KLSX 250406
TORLSX
ILC001-250430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1106 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN ADAMS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 1106 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR RICHFIELD. THE STORM
  WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH...AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...KINGSTON AND BEVERLY.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW MOVE TO A
BASEMENT...UNDERGROUND STORM SHELTER...OR AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY
ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF A STURDY BUILDING.

LAT...LON 3990 9119 3977 9127 3978 9093 3991 9093

$$

BRITT

The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 10:01 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXAdams, Pike59 min
May 24, 10:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXAdams48 min
May 24, 10:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBrown53 min
May 24, 10:52 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXPike53 min
May 24, 11:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCalhoun39 min
May 24, 11:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXGreene64 min
May 24, 11:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXJersey, Macoupin57 min
May 24, 11:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXJersey62 min
May 25, 12:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMadison56 min
May 25, 12:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMontgomery66 min
May 25, 12:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMonroe47 min
May 25, 12:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBond, Clinton, Fayette, Saint Clair61 min
May 25, 1:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMarion, Washington43 min
May 25, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMadison51 min
May 25, 1:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCalhoun48 min
May 25, 2:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMadison, Saint Clair63 min
May 25, 3:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXClinton, Saint Clair, Washington54 min
May 25, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMarion43 min
May 25, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXRandolph56 min
May 25, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXWashington32 min
May 25, 4:28 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXRandolph47 min
May 25, 5:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXMonroe5 hr

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.