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Tornado Warning 52, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 20, 2000Clark County, Edgar County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 2000, 4:15 PM CDT for Clark County, Edgar County, Illinois. It was in force for 60 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, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2000, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Clark County, IL, Edgar County, IL

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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 nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

131 
WFUS53 KILX 202116
TORSPI
ILC023-045-202215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
415 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EDGAR COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  CLARK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 415 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WITH DAMAGING WINDS... 10 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF KANSAS...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHARLESTON...
  MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. BRIEF TORNADOES CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE
  STORMS.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  KANSAS
  CLARKSVILLE
  MARSHALL
  OLIVER
  DENNISON
  VERMILION

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.

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 3957 8797 3934 8802 3935 8755 3963 8753

HEDGES

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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, 3:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Effingham	63 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, 4:19 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

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.