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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Lincoln, IL

February 27, 1999Jasper County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1999, 2:49 PM CST for Jasper County, Illinois. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 27, 1999, 2:49 PM CST (20:49 UTC)
Expired
Feb 27, 1999, 3:45 PM CST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Lincoln, IL
Area
Whole counties

County Jasper County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 132 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 1999-02-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 107 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1999-02-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 275 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
107 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-160 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
275 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
325 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 27, 2:05 PM CST, 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 27, 2:05 PM CST, 44 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 27, 12:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXColes30 min
Feb 27, 1:08 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXEffingham52 min
Feb 27, 1:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXEdgar46 min
Feb 27, 1:26 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXCumberland49 min
Feb 27, 1:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXVermilion45 min
Feb 27, 1:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXEffingham49 min
Feb 27, 2:01 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXClark59 min
Feb 27, 2:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXClay48 min
Feb 27, 2:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXRichland58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.