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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 231, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2000, 5:39 PM CDT for Coles 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
- Aug 2, 2000, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Coles County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 1064 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1262 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
954 WUUS53 KILX 022239 SVRSPI ILC029-022330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 539 PM CDT WED AUG 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN COLES COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 539 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF ASHMORE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHARLESTON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. 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 YOUR LOCAL ESDA...OR THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS. LAT...LON 3964 8810 3949 8804 3949 8798 3966 8799 FRIEDERS NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Edgar | 56 min |
| Aug 2, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 66 min |
| Aug 2, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Douglas, Edgar | 66 min |
| Aug 2, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Morgan, Schuyler | 65 min |
| Aug 2, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon, Moultrie, Piatt | 64 min |
| Aug 2, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Mason | 64 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.