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Tornado Warning 69, NWS St. Louis, MO

November 1, 2004Randolph County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Nov 1, 2004, 1:52 PM CST for Randolph County, Illinois. It was in force for 23 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
Nov 1, 2004, 1:52 PM CST (19:52 UTC)
Expired
Nov 1, 2004, 2:15 PM CST
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Randolph County, IL

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 249 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 12:00Z on 2004-11-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2004-11-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 450 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
953 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
450 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
757 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 KLSX 011952
TORLSX
ILC157-012015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
152 PM CST MON NOV 1 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 215 PM CST

* AT 152 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR WALSH. THE STORM WAS
  MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH...AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SPARTA
  EDEN
  TILDEN
  COULTERVILLE

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 3815 8995 3798 8987 3806 8960 3823 8960

$$

TRUETT/RP

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 1, 10:43 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMonroe32 min
Nov 1, 2:13 PM CSTTornado WarningLSXWashington47 min
Nov 1, 2:59 PM CSTTornado WarningLSXMarion46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.