Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 29, 2000, 8:29 PM CST for Fulton County, Knox County, Peoria County, Illinois. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 29, 2000, 8:29 PM CST (02:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 29, 2000, 9:15 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fulton County, IL, Knox County, IL, Peoria County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 1600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 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 010231
SVRSPI
ILC057-095-143-010315-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
829 PM CST TUE FEB 29 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
PEORIA COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
EASTERN FULTON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
EASTERN KNOX COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
* UNTIL 915 PM CST
* AT 829 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES NORTHWEST
OF FARMINGTON TO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANTON...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 45 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
CANTON
FARMINGTON
PEORIA
WEST PEORIA
BELLEVUE
BRIMFIELD
DUNLAP
ELMWOOD
THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
LARGE HAIL...FREQUENTLY 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.
CHURCHILL
LAT...LON 4096 9010 4070 9009 4044 90<16 4072 8958
4096 8956 4097 8973
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 7:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Knox | 32 min |
| Feb 29, 9:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 40 min |
| Feb 29, 9:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Schuyler | 40 min |
| Feb 29, 9:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Mason | 47 min |
| Feb 29, 10:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Menard, Sangamon | 40 min |
| Feb 29, 10:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan | 41 min |
| Feb 29, 11:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, McLean | 48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.