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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 2000, 5:33 AM CDT for Stark County, Illinois. It was in force for 27 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 20, 2000, 5:33 AM CDT (10:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2000, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stark County, IL
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:35 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 5:35 AM CDT | Hail 1 | La Fayette, IL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
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 20, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Apr 20, 4:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -616 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 865 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 471 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 491 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KILX 201033 SVRSPI ILC175-201100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 533 AM CDT THU APR 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STARK COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 600 AM CDT * AT 533 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF WEST JERSEY...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF KEWANEE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WEST JERSEY LA FAYETTE TOULON ELMIRA OSCEOLA BRADFORD 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 THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS. MILLER NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Schuyler | 54 min |
| Apr 19, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan | 54 min |
| Apr 19, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 51 min |
| Apr 19, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria | 51 min |
| Apr 19, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Mason | 50 min |
| Apr 20, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 41 min |
| Apr 20, 2:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Stark | 42 min |
| Apr 20, 4:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Morgan, Schuyler | 56 min |
| Apr 20, 4:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Scott | 56 min |
| Apr 20, 4:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 5:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Mason | 54 min |
| Apr 20, 5:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Menard, Sangamon | 54 min |
| Apr 20, 5:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Peoria, Tazewell | 43 min |
| Apr 20, 6:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall, Woodford | 43 min |
| Apr 20, 6:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 43 min |
| Apr 20, 6:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Macon | 47 min |
| Apr 20, 7:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan, Sangamon | 42 min |
| Apr 20, 8:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 48 min |
| Apr 20, 8:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan | 44 min |
| Apr 20, 8:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, McLean | 53 min |
| Apr 20, 9:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian | 40 min |
| Apr 20, 9:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan, Macon | 39 min |
| Apr 20, 9:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | McLean | 60 min |
| Apr 20, 9:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Piatt | 42 min |
| Apr 20, 9:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Moultrie, Shelby | 56 min |
| Apr 20, 9:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt | 30 min |
| Apr 20, 10:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign | 56 min |
| Apr 20, 10:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Moultrie, Shelby | 52 min |
| Apr 20, 10:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham | 51 min |
| Apr 20, 10:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas | 58 min |
| Apr 20, 10:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles | 39 min |
| Apr 20, 11:11 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Cumberland | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 11:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Jasper | 48 min |
| Apr 20, 11:40 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clark | 50 min |
| Apr 20, 11:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Edgar | 32 min |
| Apr 20, 12:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Lawrence, Richland | 38 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.