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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2000, 10:02 PM CDT for Tazewell County, Illinois. It was in force for 43 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, 10:02 PM CDT (03:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2000, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Tazewell County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:02 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 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, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 93 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.
394 WFUS53 KILX 090302 TORSPI ILC179-090345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 1002 PM CDT MON MAY 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TAZEWELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 1002 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF SOUTH PEKIN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS AT NIGHT BECAUSE THEY ARE HARD TO SEE. DO NOT REMAIN IN YOUR CAR OR MOBILE HOME. INSTEAD...TAKE COVER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING. GO TO A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR ANY STORM DAMAGE TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. YOUR REPORT COULD HELP SAVE LIVES. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS. LAT...LON 4050 8986 4037 8954 4047 8933 4065 8941 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, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Woodford | 64 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.