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Tornado Warning 59, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Aug 19, 2009, 2:47 PM CDT for Macoupin County, Illinois. It was in force for 13 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 19, 2009, 2:47 PM CDT (19:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2009, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 13 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Macoupin County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 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 19, 12:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 766 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLSX 191947 TORLSX ILC117-192000- /O.NEW.KLSX.TO.W.0059.090819T1947Z-090819T2000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 247 PM CDT WED AUG 19 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN MACOUPIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS... * UNTIL 300 PM CDT * AT 244 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER THE GREEN MACOUPIN COUNTY LINE EAST OF ATHENSVILLE...OR 8 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF PALMYRA. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTWEST MACOUPIN COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE... LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. && LAT...LON 3953 8994 3950 8993 3944 9015 3953 9016 TIME...MOT...LOC 1946Z 251DEG 36KT 3950 9005 $$ JPK
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KLSX 192001 SVSLSX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 301 PM CDT WED AUG 19 2009 ILC117-192010- /O.EXP.KLSX.TO.W.0059.000000T0000Z-090819T2000Z/ MACOUPIN IL- 301 PM CDT WED AUG 19 2009 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN MACOUPIN COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... THE STORM AND THE STRONG CIRCULATION WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS THAT ARE OVER NORTH CENTRAL MACOUPIN COUNTY. IN ADDITION...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY REDEVELOP...AND A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3953 8994 3950 8993 3944 9015 3953 9016 TIME...MOT...LOC 1947Z 251DEG 36KT 3949 9003 $$ JPK
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 1:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams | 37 min |
| Aug 19, 1:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Adams, Brown | 23 min |
| Aug 19, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams, Pike | 19 min |
| Aug 19, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Brown | 15 min |
| Aug 19, 1:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 24 min |
| Aug 19, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Brown | 25 min |
| Aug 19, 1:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Greene, Pike | 17 min |
| Aug 19, 2:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Greene | 16 min |
| Aug 19, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Greene | 13 min |
| Aug 19, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin, Montgomery | 22 min |
| Aug 19, 3:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LSX | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette and 10 more | 13 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Macoupin, Montgomery | 22 min |
| Aug 19, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette, Montgomery | 39 min |
| Aug 19, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Bond, Fayette | 26 min |
| Aug 19, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Bond, Fayette | 32 min |
| Aug 19, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Fayette | 26 min |
| Aug 19, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Bond, Montgomery | 23 min |
| Aug 19, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette | 48 min |
| Aug 19, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Fayette | 46 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.