Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2000, 5:53 PM CDT for Greene County, Jersey County, Illinois. It was in force for 52 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
- May 22, 2000, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Greene County, IL, Jersey County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1055 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
518
WUUS53 KLSX 222254
SVRSTL
ILC061-083-222345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
553 PM CDT MON MAY 22 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN GREENE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
JERSEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
* UNTIL 645 PM CDT
* AT 553 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELDRED..MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED...
ELDRED
FIELDON
KANE
OTTERVILLE
JERSEYVILLE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO
AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
LAT...LON 3939 9063 3898 9058 3899 9017 3918 9014
3937 9017The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun | 48 min |
| May 22, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun | 47 min |
| May 22, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin, Montgomery | 51 min |
| May 22, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jersey, Madison | 45 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.