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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 472, NWS St. Louis, MO

October 14, 2000Adams County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 14, 2000, 5:38 PM CDT for Adams County, Illinois. It was in force for 52 min. 1 report 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
Oct 14, 2000, 5:38 PM CDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired
Oct 14, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Adams County, IL

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Oct 14, 5:57 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52 EMarblehead, ILStorm spotters reported trees down.

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 nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 188 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2000-10-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2000-10-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1045 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KLSX 142240
SVRSTL
ILC001-142330-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
538 PM CDT SAT OCT 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ADAMS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 538 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF QUINCY...MOVING EAST AT 35
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH...
  QUINCY
  FALL CREEK
  PAYSON
  CAMP POINT
  CLAYTON
  COLUMBUS
  BURTON
  MARBLEHEAD
   
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS. TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY
BUILDING IMMEDIATELY.

LAT...LON 4020 9151 3976 9136 3977 9093 4020 9092

GKS

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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.