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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 2000, 3:27 PM CDT for Effingham County, Illinois. It was in force for 63 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
- Jun 20, 2000, 3:27 PM CDT (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Effingham County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1033 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
018 WFUS53 KILX 202028 TORSPI ILC049-202130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 327 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EFFINGHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 327 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF BEECHER CITY...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF VANDALIA...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BEECHER CITY ALTAMONT SHUMWAY EFFINGHAM TEUTOPOLIS DIETERICH 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 3922 8882 3906 8881 3905 8836 3921 8846 HEDGES NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Shelby | 51 min |
| Jun 20, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon | 50 min |
| Jun 20, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 40 min |
| Jun 20, 2:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Shelby | 49 min |
| Jun 20, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Shelby | 42 min |
| Jun 20, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Shelby | 45 min |
| Jun 20, 3:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles | 66 min |
| Jun 20, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Cumberland | 65 min |
| Jun 20, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clark, Edgar | 60 min |
| Jun 20, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Jasper | 56 min |
| Jun 20, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass | 62 min |
| Jun 20, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Menard | 59 min |
| Jun 20, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Scott | 58 min |
| Jun 20, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Logan | 65 min |
| Jun 20, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 63 min |
| Jun 20, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan | 67 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.