Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 346, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2000, 4:23 PM CDT for Fayette County, Illinois. It was in force for 52 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
- Aug 6, 2000, 4:23 PM CDT (21:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2000, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Fayette County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 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 nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 1269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1212 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 13.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
269
WUUS53 KLSX 062124
SVRSTL
ILC051-062215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
423 PM CDT SUN AUG 6 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS
* UNTIL 515 PM CDT
* AT 423 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF VANDALIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH...
SHOBONIER
VANDALIA
RAMSEY
BROWNSTOWN
WRIGHTS CORNER
ST. ELMO
HAGERSTOWN
SHAFTER
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 3921 8926 3874 8926 3882 8913 3884 8870
3892 8881 3922 8882
GKSThe office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 6:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams | 38 min |
| Aug 6, 6:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams | 30 min |
| Aug 6, 12:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams | 46 min |
| Aug 6, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison, Saint Clair | 47 min |
| Aug 6, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Bond, Clinton, Fayette | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion | 34 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.