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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at May 12, 2000, 8:55 PM CDT for Clay County, Richland County, Illinois. It was in force for 50 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, 8:55 PM CDT (01:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Clay County, IL, Richland 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, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 161 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.
484 WFUS53 KILX 130157 TORSPI ILC025-159-130245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 855 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RICHLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS CLAY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 855 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF CLAY CITY...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF FLORA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... SAILOR SPRINGS CLAY CITY SCHNELL NOBLE OLNEY CALHOUN CLAREMONT 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 3880 8846 3862 8847 3858 8792 3883 8793 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, 7:46 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, 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.