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Tornado Warning 56, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 2000, 9:10 PM CDT for Champaign County, Illinois. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report 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, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Champaign County, IL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Mahomet, IL | A tornado made a series of brief touchdowns over a 2.6 mile long path. The tornado made its first touchdown 1 mile southeast of Mansfield (Piatt County) and destroyed a barn. As it traveled to the southeast, it crossed into Champaign County, 2.5 miles west of |
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, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 831 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 828 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 15.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KILX 210211 TORSPI ILC019-210300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 910 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 910 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTH OF MAHOMET...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHAMPAIGN...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS REPORTED SOUTHEAST OF MANSFIELD AT 900 PM BY STATE POLICE. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... SEYMOUR MAHOMET LAKE OF THE WOODS FISHER TOLONO CHAMPAIGN SAVOY URBANA 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 NEARE=ST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. YOUR REPORT COULD HELP SAVE LIVES. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS. LAT...LON 4037 8847 3995 8846 3999 8795 4037 8795 AUTEN NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 64 min |
| Jun 20, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 57 min |
| Jun 20, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Macon | 67 min |
| Jun 20, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Mason, Tazewell | 62 min |
| Jun 20, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria | 62 min |
| Jun 20, 7:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Logan | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Morgan, Schuyler | 60 min |
| Jun 20, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Scott | 60 min |
| Jun 20, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall, Woodford | 54 min |
| Jun 20, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon | 62 min |
| Jun 20, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan | 62 min |
| Jun 20, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt | 61 min |
| Jun 20, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Moultrie, Piatt | 43 min |
| Jun 20, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Shelby | 43 min |
| Jun 20, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign | 45 min |
| Jun 20, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas, Moultrie | 61 min |
| Jun 20, 9:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 66 min |
| Jun 20, 9:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign | 36 min |
| Jun 20, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Shelby | 67 min |
| Jun 20, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Moultrie | 58 min |
| Jun 20, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham | 55 min |
| Jun 20, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cumberland, Jasper | 62 min |
| Jun 21, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark | 60 min |
| Jun 21, 12:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford | 68 min |
| Jun 21, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Richland | 65 min |
| Jun 21, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Lawrence | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.