Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 236, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2000, 8:01 PM CDT for Moultrie County, Piatt County, Shelby County, Illinois. It was in force for 59 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, 8:01 PM CDT (01:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Shelby County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1576 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
053
WUUS53 KILX 030101
SVRSPI
ILC139-147-173-030200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
801 PM CDT WED AUG 2 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SHELBY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
PIATT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
MOULTRIE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
* UNTIL 900 PM CDT
* AT 801 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES WEST OF MONTICELLO TO
COWDEN...OR FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF DECATUR TO 9 MILES SOUTH OF
SHELBYVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
ALLENVILLE
HAMMOND
STEWARDSON
WINDSOR
BEMENT
MONTICELLO
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH WILL ACCOMPANY THIS DANGEROUS
STORM. WINDS OF THIS SPEED CAN SOUND JUST LIKE A TORNADO AND CAUSE
JUST AS MUCH DAMAGE. GO TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES IF
YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA.
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 4001 8872 3970 8876 3924 8891 3922 8849
3969 8849 4006 8852
FRIEDERS
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon | 57 min |
| Aug 2, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Cumberland, Douglas | 64 min |
| Aug 2, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Effingham | 64 min |
| Aug 2, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Jasper | 53 min |
| Aug 2, 8:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Edgar | 3 min |
| Aug 2, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign | 46 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.