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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2000, 7:46 PM CDT for Coles County, Illinois. It was in force for 29 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 12, 2000, 7:46 PM CDT (00:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Coles County, IL
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 12, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -342 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
593 WUUS53 KILX 130046 SVRSPI ILC029-130115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 746 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COLES COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 746 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF CHARLESTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LERNA CHARLESTON ASHMORE 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. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES AT ANY TIME. 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 3952 8827 3938 8833 3938 8802 3954 8797 HEDGES NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cumberland | 49 min |
| May 12, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham | 57 min |
| May 12, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon | 45 min |
| May 12, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Edgar | 68 min |
| May 12, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Piatt | 65 min |
| May 12, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Jasper | 49 min |
| May 12, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign | 59 min |
| May 12, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clay | 54 min |
| May 12, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Crawford, Jasper | 53 min |
| May 12, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark | 34 min |
| May 12, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clay, Richland | 50 min |
| May 12, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford | 48 min |
| May 12, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Richland | 47 min |
| May 12, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Lawrence | 63 min |
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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.