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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 12, 2000Clay County, Effingham County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at May 12, 2000, 7:18 PM CDT for Clay County, Effingham County, Illinois. It was in force for 57 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, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Clay County, IL, Effingham 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, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
May 12, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 138 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

678 
WFUS53 KILX 130020
TORSPI
ILC025-049-130115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
718 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EFFINGHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS
  CLAY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 718 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 16 MILES WEST OF EDGEWOOD...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF 
  VANDALIA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  EDGEWOOD
  IOLA
  WATSON
  LOUISVILLE
  BIBLE GROVE
  SAILOR SPRINGS
  CLAY CITY

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD
BE ABANDONED FOR A SAFER SHELTER.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...ACT NOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF.
DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE THE TORNADO BEFORE TAKING ACTION. YOU MAY
NOT SEE OR HEAR ITS APPROACH.

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 3905 8901 3887 8906 3861 8829 3886 8837
          3905 8837

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, 7:30 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, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles	29 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

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.