Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT for Brown County, Illinois. It was in force for 45 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
- Jun 23, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Brown County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 2264 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
871
WUUS53 KLSX 232232
SVRSTL
ILC009-232315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
530 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BROWN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
* UNTIL 615 PM CDT
* AT 530 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BUCKHORN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH...
MT. STERLING
COOPERTOWN
RIPLEY
VERSAILLES
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 4010 9091 3985 9091 3986 9058 3996 9055
4010 9071The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 43 min |
| Jun 23, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin | 41 min |
| Jun 23, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams | 51 min |
| Jun 23, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams, Pike | 39 min |
| Jun 23, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 59 min |
| Jun 23, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Greene, Macoupin, Montgomery | 47 min |
| Jun 23, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 46 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.