Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 216, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2000, 12:17 PM CDT for Clinton County, Saint Clair County, Washington County, Illinois. It was in force for 43 min. 3 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 14, 2000, 12:17 PM CDT (17:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2000, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Clinton County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL, Washington County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 12:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Freeburg, IL | |
| Jun 14, 12:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Mascoutah, IL | |
| Jun 14, 12:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Breese, IL | Storm spotters reported trees down blocking Highway 50 between Breese and Beckemeyer. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1239 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLSX 141718 SVRSTL ILC027-163-189-141800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1217 PM CDT WED JUN 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLINTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS EASTERN ST. CLAIR COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS * UNTIL 100 PM CDT * AT 1217 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FREEBURG...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... NEW MEMPHIS GERMANTOWN TRENTON FREEBURG BREESE BECKMEYER OKAWVILLE MASCOUTAH 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 3864 8989 3830 8994 3840 8916 3874 8917
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 40 min |
| Jun 14, 12:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Bond, Madison | 38 min |
| Jun 14, 12:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 51 min |
| Jun 14, 12:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Randolph | 41 min |
| Jun 14, 12:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 1:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 52 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.