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Tornado Warning 106, NWS St. Louis, MO

September 22, 2006Pike County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Sep 22, 2006, 4:47 PM CDT for Pike County, Illinois. It was in force for 28 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: Sep 22, 2006, 4:47 PM CDT (21:47 UTC)
Expired: Sep 22, 2006, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pike County, IL

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 22, 1:16 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 831 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 571 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 612 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 222147
TORLSX
ILC149-222215-
/O.NEW.KLSX.TO.W.0106.060922T2147Z-060922T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
447 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN PIKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 444 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR PERRY...OR ABOUT 13
  MILES NORTH OF PITTSFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CHAMBERSBURG...

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS AND EASTERN MISSOURI.

LAT...LON 3984 9091 3974 9089 3973 9064 3985 9058

$$

CVKING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 22, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Adams, Brown	42 min
Sep 22, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Washington	47 min
Sep 22, 4:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Washington	30 min
Sep 22, 4:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Monroe	41 min
Sep 22, 5:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Brown, Pike	26 min
Sep 22, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Clair, Washington	49 min
Sep 22, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Clair	46 min
Sep 22, 5:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Monroe	47 min
Sep 22, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Washington	45 min
Sep 22, 6:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Saint Clair	24 min
Sep 22, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Washington	52 min
Sep 22, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Washington	35 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.