Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 2000, 5:47 AM CDT for Logan County, Peoria County, Tazewell County, Illinois. It was in force for 43 min. 4 reports 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, 5:47 AM CDT (10:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2000, 6:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Logan County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Tazewell County, IL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 5:55 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 54 M | San Jose, IL | As a line of severe thunderstorms raced across Logan County, extensive damage was reported in northern sections of the county from San Jose to Atlanta. In San Jose, a mobile home was blown off of its foundation. No injuries were reported. In the Emden area, |
| Apr 20, 5:59 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 64 M | Countywide, IL | Widespread damage was reported countywide. In Green Valley, a large empty grain bin was blown over, several sheds destroyed, and an irrigation system was wrapped around a couple of power poles. In Groveland, a radio tower was blown down, causing $500,000 in |
| Apr 20, 6:00 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Powerton, IL | |
| Apr 20, 6:06 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Bartonville, 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 1377 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 334 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 489 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 201050 SVRSPI ILC107-143-179-201130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 547 AM CDT THU APR 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TAZEWELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS PEORIA COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS LOGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 630 AM CDT * AT 547 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM CANTON TO MASON CITY TO PETERSBURG TO JUST WEST OF SPRINGFIELD. THE LINE WAS MOVING NORHTEAST AT 60 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PEORIA MORTON PEKIN TREMONT LINCOLN THIS LINE HAS HAD A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH WILL ACCOMPANY THIS DANGEROUS STORM. 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 THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS. FRIEDERS 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, 5:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Stark | 27 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.