Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 418, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2000, 11:33 PM CDT for Bond County, Fayette County, Illinois. It was in force for 42 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 22, 2000, 11:33 PM CDT (04:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2000, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bond County, IL, Fayette County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 3363 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 915 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KLSX 230434
SVRSTL
ILC005-051-230515-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1133 PM CDT TUE AUG 22 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BOND COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS
SOUTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS
* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT
* AT 1133 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM BROWNSTOWN TO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF SORENTO...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH...
BROWNSTOWN
VANDALIA
GREENVILLE
MULBERRY GROVE
POCAHONTAS
SHOBONIER
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 3912 8881 3901 8925 3899 8969 3875 8962
3885 8874The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams | 62 min |
| Aug 22, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Brown, Pike | 53 min |
| Aug 22, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Greene | 55 min |
| Aug 22, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin | 52 min |
| Aug 22, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 40 min |
| Aug 22, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin | 35 min |
| Aug 22, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette, Montgomery | 43 min |
| Aug 23, 12:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion | 62 min |
| Aug 23, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams, Brown | 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.