Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 319, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2000, 4:12 PM CDT for Pike County, Illinois. It was in force for 33 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
- Jul 5, 2000, 4:12 PM CDT (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2000, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pike County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 874 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 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 052114 SVRSTL ILC149-052145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 412 PM CDT WED JUL 5 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN PIKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 412 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF GRIGGSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * TOWNS IN THE PATH INCLUDE... GRIGGSVILLE VALLEY CITY DETROIT MILTON THE PRIMARY THREAT POSED BY THIS STORM IS DAMAGING WINDS. MOVE QUICKLY TO THE INTERIOR PORTION OF A STURDY SHELTER...ANDD STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3988 9085 3976 9100 3958 9059 3982 9058 JPK/RP
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams | 35 min |
| Jul 5, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Brown | 40 min |
| Jul 5, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin, Montgomery | 42 min |
| Jul 5, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin, Montgomery | 29 min |
| Jul 5, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette | 29 min |
| Jul 5, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette | 26 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.