Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 273, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2000, 7:11 PM CDT for Randolph County, Saint Clair County, Washington County, Illinois. It was in force for 49 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 24, 2000, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Randolph County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL, Washington County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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 24, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 1021 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KLSX 250012
SVRSTL
ILC027-157-163-189-250100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
711 PM CDT SAT JUN 24 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN CLINTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS
WESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS
NORTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS
SOUTHEASTERN ST. CLAIR COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS
* UNTIL 800 PM CDT
* AT 711 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NEW ATHENS...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT
40 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH...
TILDEN
LIVELY GROVE
MARISSA
ELKTON
ST LIBORY
RED BUD
SPARTA
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 3856 8972 3815 9005 3813 8962 3823 8962
3823 8943 3858 8935The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Clinton | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.