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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 7, 2000, 2:27 PM CDT for Richland County, Illinois. It was in force for 63 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
- Apr 7, 2000, 2:27 PM CDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Richland County, IL
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 7, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 935 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KILX 071928 SVRSPI ILC159-072030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 227 PM CDT FRI APR 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RICHLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS * UNTIL 330 PM CDT * AT 227 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OLNEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... OLNEY CALHOUN 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. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES AT ANY TIME. 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 3851 8843 3839 8827 3864 8792 3887 8804 EH/JH NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 8:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Effingham | 52 min |
| Apr 7, 9:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt | 49 min |
| Apr 7, 9:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cumberland | 44 min |
| Apr 7, 9:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Jasper | 60 min |
| Apr 7, 9:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Crawford | 65 min |
| Apr 7, 1:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Effingham | 55 min |
| Apr 7, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cumberland, Jasper | 60 min |
| Apr 7, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham | 59 min |
| Apr 7, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark | 35 min |
| Apr 7, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay | 60 min |
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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.