Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 7, 2000, 3:10 PM CDT for Marion County, Illinois. It was in force for 50 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 7, 2000, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, IL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 3:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Centralia, IL | |
| Apr 7, 3:25 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Centralia, IL |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 935 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 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 072010 SVRSTL ILC121-072100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 310 PM CDT FRI APR 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MARION COUNTY ILLINOIS IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 308 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF CENTRALIA... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED... CENTRALIA SANDOVAL KELL CARTTER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DAMAGING HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. GKS/FG
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 12:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison, Saint Clair | 53 min |
| Apr 7, 7:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jersey | 34 min |
| Apr 7, 7:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin, Madison | 46 min |
| Apr 7, 8:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 50 min |
| Apr 7, 8:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette | 48 min |
| Apr 7, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Clair | 55 min |
| Apr 7, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Clinton | 62 min |
| Apr 7, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 55 min |
| Apr 7, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 54 min |
| Apr 7, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Randolph, Saint Clair | 47 min |
| Apr 7, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Clinton, Washington | 37 min |
Nearby
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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.