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Tornado Warning 60, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 2000, 10:26 PM CDT for Coles County, Illinois. It was in force for 49 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
- Aug 26, 2000, 10:26 PM CDT (03:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2000, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Coles County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:28 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 10:48 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 E | Mattoon, IL | Numerous tree limbs and power lines were blown down. Also, some corn crops near the airport were flattened. |
| Aug 26, 11:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Mattoon, IL |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 3339 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 969 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 9.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KILX 270327 TORSPI ILC029-270415- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 1026 PM CDT SAT AUG 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COLES COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 1115 PM CDT * AT 1026 PM CDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 4.5 MILES NORTH WEST OF MATTOON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HUMBOLDT MATTOON CHARLESTON LERNA HUTTON 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. TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS AT NIGHT BECAUSE THEY ARE HARD TO SEE. DO NOT REMAIN IN YOUR CAR OR MOBILE HOME. INSTEAD...TAKE COVER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING. GO TO A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR ANY STORM DAMAGE TO YOUR LOCAL ESDA...OR THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS. LAT...LON 3965 8824 3956 8847 3939 8832 3939 8801 AUTEN NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 75 min |
| Aug 26, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt | 46 min |
| Aug 26, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Mason | 57 min |
| Aug 26, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Menard | 52 min |
| Aug 26, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Piatt | 60 min |
| Aug 26, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 75 min |
| Aug 26, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Douglas, Moultrie | 65 min |
| Aug 26, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas, Moultrie | 45 min |
| Aug 26, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Piatt | 32 min |
| Aug 26, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Douglas | 65 min |
| Aug 26, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Cumberland | 60 min |
| Aug 26, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Crawford, Jasper | 69 min |
| Aug 27, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Lawrence | 43 min |
| Aug 27, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Richland | 61 min |
| Aug 27, 4:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay | 24 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.