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Tornado Warning 12, NWS St. Louis, MO

April 4, 2010Greene County, Macoupin County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 4, 2010, 10:16 PM CDT for Greene County, Macoupin County, Illinois. It was in force for 29 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 4, 2010, 10:16 PM CDT (03:16 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 2010, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Greene County, IL, Macoupin County, IL

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 4, 10:27 PM CDT	HAIL 0.7	Greenfield, IL
Apr 4, 10:38 PM CDT	HAIL 0.7	9 Wnw Carlinville, IL

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 4, 3:34 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
Apr 4, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 2143 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 334 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 480 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

339 
WFUS53 KLSX 050316
TORLSX
ILC061-117-050345-
/O.NEW.KLSX.TO.W.0012.100405T0316Z-100405T0345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1016 PM CDT SUN APR 4 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS...
  WEST CENTRAL MACOUPIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS...

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 1015 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CARROLLTON...OR 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WHITE
  HALL...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GREENFIELD...PALMYRA...WRIGHTS...ROCKBRIDGE...CHESTERFIELD AND
  HETTICK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3946 8990 3922 9005 3924 9015 3926 9016
      3926 9019 3924 9021 3927 9043 3945 9032
TIME...MOT...LOC 0316Z 281DEG 40KT 3933 9032

$$

BRITT

2 follow-up statements

303 
WWUS53 KLSX 050333
SVSLSX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1033 PM CDT SUN APR 4 2010

ILC061-117-050345-
/O.CON.KLSX.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-100405T0345Z/
GREENE IL-MACOUPIN IL-
1033 PM CDT SUN APR 4 2010

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL MACOUPIN AND
EAST CENTRAL GREENE COUNTIES UNTIL 1045 PM CDT...

AT 1027 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS 
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GREENFIELD...OR 14 MILES WEST OF 
CARLINVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL MACOUPIN COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3946 8990 3922 9005 3924 9015 3926 9016
      3926 9021 3945 9020
TIME...MOT...LOC 0333Z 287DEG 41KT 3928 9005

$$

BRITT

945 
WWUS53 KLSX 050339
SVSLSX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1039 PM CDT SUN APR 4 2010

ILC061-050347-
/O.CAN.KLSX.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-100405T0345Z/
GREENE IL-
1039 PM CDT SUN APR 4 2010

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL GREENE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED 
AREA.

LAT...LON 3939 9015 3941 8993 3922 9005 3924 9015
      3925 9015
TIME...MOT...LOC 0337Z 287DEG 41KT 3927 8999

$$

ILC117-050345-
/O.CON.KLSX.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-100405T0345Z/
MACOUPIN IL-
1039 PM CDT SUN APR 4 2010

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL MACOUPIN
COUNTY UNTIL 1045 PM CDT...

AT 1036 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF CARLINVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45
MPH.

ANOTHER TORNADO WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL 
MACOUPIN COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3939 9015 3941 8993 3922 9005 3924 9015
      3925 9015
TIME...MOT...LOC 0337Z 287DEG 41KT 3927 8999

$$

BRITT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 4, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Adams, Brown, Pike	26 min
Apr 4, 8:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Calhoun	35 min
Apr 4, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Pike	32 min
Apr 4, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Greene, Jersey	38 min
Apr 4, 9:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Greene, Jersey	26 min
Apr 4, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Greene, Pike	40 min
Apr 4, 9:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Macoupin	35 min
Apr 4, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Bond, Macoupin, Montgomery	45 min
Apr 4, 10:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Macoupin	40 min
Apr 4, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Calhoun	34 min
Apr 4, 10:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Macoupin, Montgomery	42 min
Apr 4, 11:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Jersey, Macoupin	32 min
Apr 4, 11:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Montgomery	46 min
Apr 4, 11:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Fayette, Montgomery	39 min
Apr 4, 11:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Madison	36 min
Apr 5, 12:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Calhoun, Greene, Pike	30 min
Apr 5, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Macoupin, Madison, Montgomery	40 min
Apr 5, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Macoupin, Montgomery	47 min
Apr 5, 4:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LSX	Montgomery	4 hr
Apr 5, 4:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Fayette, Montgomery	32 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.