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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 7, 2000, 2:55 PM CDT for Clark County, Illinois. It was in force for 35 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, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Clark County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 117 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 071956 SVRSPI ILC023-072030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 255 PM CDT FRI APR 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLARK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 330 PM CDT * AT 255 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF MARTINSVILLE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CASEY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MARSHALL MARTINSVILLE 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 3933 8800 3916 8794 3921 8757 3945 8754 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, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Richland | 63 min |
| Apr 7, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham | 59 min |
| Apr 7, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay | 60 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.