Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 334, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2000, 8:54 PM CDT for Bond County, Illinois. It was in force for 51 min. 4 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
- Jul 18, 2000, 8:54 PM CDT (01:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2000, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Bond County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 9:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Old Ripley, IL | |
| Jul 18, 9:12 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Old Ripley, IL | |
| Jul 18, 9:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Greenville, IL | The County Sheriff reported trees and power lines down on the west and south side of town. |
| Jul 18, 9:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Dudleyville, IL | Thunderstorms winds downed power lines on the Airport Road between Dudleyville and Route 127. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 1033 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 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 190154 SVRSTL ILC005-190245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 854 PM CDT TUE JUL 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BOND COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 854 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER POCAHONTAS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... GREENVILLE WOBURN 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. THE PRIMARY THREAT POSED BY THIS STORM IS DAMAGING WINDS. MOVE QUICKLY TO THE INTERIOR PORTION OF A STURDY SHELTER...AND STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3900 8966 3874 8961 3876 8925 3902 8927 PRZYBYLINSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Jersey, Madison | 49 min |
| Jul 18, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Calhoun | 46 min |
| Jul 18, 8:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Macoupin | 41 min |
| Jul 18, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Clair | 46 min |
| Jul 18, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette | 42 min |
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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.