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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 14, 2000Coles County, Cumberland County, Douglas County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2000, 1:50 PM CDT for Coles County, Cumberland County, Douglas County, Illinois. It was in force for 70 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: Jun 14, 2000, 1:50 PM CDT (18:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2000, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 70 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Coles County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 14, 2:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Mattoon, IL	Several trees and power lines were blown down. Five miles NNE of Mattoon, a pickup truck hauling a trailer, was overturned by the thunderstorm winds. No injuries were reported.
Jun 14, 2:11 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcola, IL	Several power lines and tree limbs were blown down.

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
Jun 14, 12:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 67 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: 1239 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 220 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 217 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.

000 
WUUS53 KILX 141850
SVRSPI
ILC029-035-041-142000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
150 PM CDT WED JUN 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  DOUGLAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  COLES COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 148 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF 
  TUSCOLA TO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF EFFINGHAM...MOVING NORTHEAST 
  AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  COOKS MILL
  NEOGA
  MATTOON
  HUMBOLDT
  ARCOLA
  TUSCOLA
  JEWETT
  CHARLESTON

THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
DAMAGING HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. TAKE
SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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 3986 8846 3919 8847 3918 8803 3989 8797

GOETSCH

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 11:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton, Knox	53 min
Jun 13, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Schuyler	47 min
Jun 14, 12:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian	58 min
Jun 14, 12:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Macon, Sangamon	57 min
Jun 14, 12:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Logan, McLean	63 min
Jun 14, 12:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Woodford	46 min
Jun 14, 1:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Shelby	54 min
Jun 14, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Piatt	60 min
Jun 14, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Moultrie	65 min
Jun 14, 1:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Effingham	56 min
Jun 14, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign	62 min
Jun 14, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay	57 min
Jun 14, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Jasper, Richland	62 min
Jun 14, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Edgar, Vermilion	70 min
Jun 14, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark	62 min
Jun 14, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Crawford, Lawrence	56 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.