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Tornado Warning 54, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 20, 2000Logan County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 2000, 6:40 PM CDT for Logan County, Illinois. It was in force for 65 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 20, 2000, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Logan County, IL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 20, 6:52 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Broadwell, IL	Large tree blown down in the southwest part of Broadwell. Numerous large trees and tree limbs were blown down in the area.
Jun 20, 6:55 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Broadwell, IL	A tornado briefly touched down in Broadwell. The top of a grain leg on an elevator was torn off and several trees and tree limbs were blown down. Also, a few power lines were blown down and a few homes sustained minor shingle and siding damage. No injuries wer

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 20, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 71 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.

079 
WFUS53 KILX 202342
TORSPI
ILC107-210045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LOGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 640 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR MIDDLETOWN...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  LINCOLN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MIDDLETOWN
  ELKHART
  SAN JOSE
  EMDEN
  HARTSBURG
  MOUNT PULASKI
  LINCOLN
  CHESTNUT

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 4032 8961 3999 8959 3995 8916 4029 8918

AUTEN

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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, 4:15 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, 6:42 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.