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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 26, 2000Morgan County, Scott County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT for Morgan County, Scott County, Illinois. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT (04:45 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2000, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Morgan County, IL, Scott County, IL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 11:50 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	New Berlin, IL	Thunderstorm winds destroyed a house under construction one mile south of Loami. Also, numerous trees and tree limbs were blown down. One tree fell onto a car, destroying it in New Berlin. No injuries were reported.
May 27, 12:13 AM CDT	Hail 1	Springfield, IL

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 26, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 715 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 238 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 505 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.

115 
WUUS53 KILX 270446
SVRSPI
ILC137-167-171-270530-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
1145 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SCOTT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  MORGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  SANGAMON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 1230 AM CDT

* AT 1145 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM LITERBERRY TO 
  JACKSONVILLE TO 3 MILES EAST OF MANCHESTER...MOVING EAST AT 40 
  MPH. AT 1130 PM...TREES WERE REPORTED BLOWN DOWN WITH THESE STORMS 
  ON ILLINOIS ROUTE 106...JUST WEST OF WINCHESTER BY SCOTT COUNTY 
  SHERIFF/S OFFICE. 

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MANCHESTER
  JACKSONVILLE
  MURRAYVILLE
  LITERBERRY
  WOODSON
  ALEXANDER
  FRANKLIN
  PLEASANT PLAINS
  SPRINGFIELD

DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH WILL ACCOMPANY THIS DANGEROUS
STORM. GO TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES IF YOU ARE IN THE
WARNED AREA.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR ANY STORM DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY
TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

&

LAT...LON 3988 9033 3972 9034 3953 9036 3953 8964
          3977 8960 3989 8954

BYRD
NNNN

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 May 26, 9:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 9:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
935 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2000

NOT MUCH TIME TO TALK THIS EVENING...SPC JUST THREW A WATCH INTO THE FAR
WESTERN COUNTIES. BOW ECHO OVR N-CONTRL MO RACING EWD ALONG AND NORTH
OF THETAE RIDGE AND MOISTURE AXIS. GOOD COVERAGE ON RAINS TNT ACRS
CNTRL IL!

SMITH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Jasper, Richland	40 min
May 26, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Morgan, Scott	63 min
May 26, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cass, Schuyler	63 min
May 26, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Sangamon	45 min
May 27, 12:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, Logan, Macon, Sangamon	50 min
May 27, 12:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Macon, Moultrie, Piatt	61 min
May 27, 12:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, Shelby	61 min
May 27, 1:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles, Douglas, Edgar	46 min
May 27, 1:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cumberland	47 min
May 27, 2:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark	35 min
May 27, 2:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Crawford, Jasper, Richland	53 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.