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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 8, 2000DeWitt County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2000, 10:57 PM CDT for DeWitt County, Illinois. It was in force for 63 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
May 8, 2000, 10:57 PM CDT (03:57 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 2000, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Lincoln, IL
Area
Whole counties

County DeWitt County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 8, 11:00 PM CDTHail 0.88Clinton, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 8, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 26 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2000-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2720 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2000-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

906 
WUUS53 KILX 090357
SVRSPI
ILC039-090500-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
1057 PM CDT MON MAY 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DE WITT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT

* AT 1057 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF KENNEY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
  WEST OF CLINTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  KENNEY
  CLINTON
  WAPELLA

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.

NNNN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXFulton, Knox47 min
May 8, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXPeoria65 min
May 8, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMarshall, Stark65 min
May 8, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXFulton60 min
May 8, 9:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMason, Tazewell55 min
May 8, 10:02 PM CDTTornado WarningILXTazewell43 min
May 8, 10:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXWoodford64 min
May 8, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXLogan, Menard61 min
May 8, 10:40 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMcLean, Tazewell50 min
May 8, 11:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMacon57 min
May 8, 11:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXPiatt67 min
May 9, 1:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXScott46 min
May 9, 2:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMorgan48 min
May 9, 2:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXSangamon53 min
May 9, 3:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMoultrie, Shelby50 min
May 9, 2:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXClay55 min
May 9, 2:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXVermilion39 min
May 9, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXCumberland, Effingham, Jasper56 min
May 9, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXClark, Edgar63 min
May 9, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXVermilion46 min
May 9, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXCrawford43 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.