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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2000, 10:11 PM CDT for Woodford County, Illinois. It was in force for 64 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
- May 8, 2000, 10:11 PM CDT (03:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2000, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Woodford County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 2720 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1120 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KILX 090312 SVRSPI ILC203-090415- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 1011 PM CDT MON MAY 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WOODFORD COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 1115 PM CDT * AT 1011 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF METAMORA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... METAMORA ROANOKE LARGE HAIL IN EXCESS OF 1 INCH WILL ACCOMPANY THIS DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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. LAT...LON 4079 8953 4077 8927 4078 8904 4090 8925 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Knox | 47 min |
| May 8, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria | 65 min |
| May 8, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall, Stark | 65 min |
| May 8, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 60 min |
| May 8, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Mason, Tazewell | 55 min |
| May 8, 10:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 43 min |
| May 8, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Menard | 61 min |
| May 8, 10:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | McLean, Tazewell | 50 min |
| May 8, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt | 63 min |
| May 8, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon | 57 min |
| May 8, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Piatt | 67 min |
| May 9, 1:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Scott | 46 min |
| May 9, 2:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan | 48 min |
| May 9, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 53 min |
| May 9, 3:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Moultrie, Shelby | 50 min |
| May 9, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay | 55 min |
| May 9, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 39 min |
| May 9, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper | 56 min |
| May 9, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Edgar | 63 min |
| May 9, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 46 min |
| May 9, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford | 43 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.