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Tornado Warning 61, NWS Lincoln, IL

September 11, 2000Fulton County, Knox County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Sep 11, 2000, 10:19 PM CDT for Fulton County, Knox County, Illinois. It was in force for 26 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: Sep 11, 2000, 10:19 PM CDT (03:19 UTC)
Expired: Sep 11, 2000, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Fulton County, IL, Knox County, IL

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 11, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 1371 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2176 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KILX 120319
TORSPI

ILC057-095-120345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
1019 PM CDT MON SEP 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  KNOX COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  FULTON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 1019 PM CDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR LONDON MILLS...OR
  ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF CANTON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  FARMINGTON
  YATES CITY

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 LOCAL ESDA...OR THE
NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

LAT...LON 4081 9030 4063 9032 4059 9000 4079 9000

MILLER


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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 11, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Knox	57 min
Sep 11, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton, Schuyler	54 min
Sep 11, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Peoria, Stark	63 min
Sep 11, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cass, Morgan, Sangamon	64 min
Sep 11, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Mason, Menard	64 min
Sep 11, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Tazewell, Woodford	62 min
Sep 11, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Marshall	62 min
Sep 11, 10:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Logan	54 min
Sep 11, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	McLean	55 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.