Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 83, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Aug 5, 2008, 7:43 PM CDT for Fayette County, Illinois. It was in force for 17 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 5, 2008, 7:43 PM CDT (00:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2008, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Fayette County, IL
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 134 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1853 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 949 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KLSX 060043
TORLSX
ILC051-060100-
/O.NEW.KLSX.TO.W.0083.080806T0043Z-080806T0100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
743 PM CDT TUE AUG 5 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS
* UNTIL 800 PM CDT
* AT 740 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR BROWNSTOWN...OR ABOUT
10 MILES EAST OF VANDALIA...MOVING EAST AT 53 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ST. ELMO AND BROWNSTOWN
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.
LAT...LON 3891 8899 3909 8898 3909 8880 3892 8881
3892 8878 3892 8870 3889 8870
TIME...MOT...LOC 0044Z 274DEG 46KT 3899 8886
$$
TILLY1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KLSX 060058
SVSLSX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
758 PM CDT TUE AUG 5 2008
ILC051-060108-
/O.EXP.KLSX.TO.W.0083.000000T0000Z-080806T0100Z/
FAYETTE IL-
758 PM CDT TUE AUG 5 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO
EXPIRE AT 800 PM CDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM.
LAT...LON 3891 8899 3909 8898 3909 8880 3892 8881
3892 8878 3892 8870 3889 8870
TIME...MOT...LOC 0058Z 274DEG 46KT 3898 8863
$$
TILLYThe office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Bond, Fayette, Montgomery | 39 min |
| Aug 5, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette, Montgomery | 51 min |
| Aug 5, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette, Marion | 42 min |
| Aug 5, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Saint Clair, Washington | 13 min |
| Aug 5, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Madison, Marion, Monroe and 3 more | 64 min |
| Aug 5, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 42 min |
| Aug 5, 9:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Jersey, Macoupin | 4 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.