Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 29, 2000, 11:12 PM CST for DeWitt County, McLean County, Illinois. It was in force for 48 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
- Feb 29, 2000, 11:12 PM CST (05:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2000, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties DeWitt County, IL, McLean County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:08 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 1710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 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 010513
SVRSPI
ILC039-113-010600-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
1112 PM CST TUE FEB 29 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
DE WITT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
MCLEAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST
* AT 1112 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
MORTON TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLOOMINGTON TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF CLINTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
BLOOMINGTON
CLINTON
LE ROY
NORMAL
DANVERS
DOWNS
FARMER CITY
HEYWORTH
THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
DAMAGING HAIL...FREQUENTLY 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.
LAT...LON 4059 8928 4032 8917 4005 8911 4024 8864
4075 8877 4062. 8905
AUTEN
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 7:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Knox | 32 min |
| Feb 29, 8:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Knox, Peoria | 46 min |
| Feb 29, 9:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 40 min |
| Feb 29, 9:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Schuyler | 40 min |
| Feb 29, 9:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Mason | 47 min |
| Feb 29, 10:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Menard, Sangamon | 40 min |
| Feb 29, 10:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan | 41 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.