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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2000, 1:24 PM CDT for Christian County, Shelby County, Illinois. It was in force for 51 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 2000, 1:24 PM CDT (18:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2000, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Christian County, IL, Shelby County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1033 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
194 WUUS53 KILX 201824 SVRSPI ILC021-173-201915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 124 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SHELBY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 215 PM CDT * AT 121 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 23 MILES WEST OF PANA...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF HILLSBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PANA ASSUMPTION TOWER HILL LAKEWOOD WESTERVELT SHELBYVILLE FINDLAY 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 3941 8946 3919 8939 3925 8851 3966 8883 HEDGES NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon | 50 min |
| Jun 20, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 40 min |
| Jun 20, 2:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Shelby | 49 min |
| Jun 20, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Shelby | 42 min |
| Jun 20, 3:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Effingham | 63 min |
| Jun 20, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Shelby | 45 min |
| Jun 20, 3:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles | 66 min |
| Jun 20, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Cumberland | 65 min |
| Jun 20, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clark, Edgar | 60 min |
| Jun 20, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Jasper | 56 min |
| Jun 20, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass | 62 min |
| Jun 20, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Menard | 59 min |
| Jun 20, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Scott | 58 min |
| Jun 20, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Logan | 65 min |
| Jun 20, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 63 min |
| Jun 20, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan | 67 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.