Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 2000, 7:29 PM CDT for Madison County, Illinois. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report 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 16, 2000, 7:29 PM CDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 7:46 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Wood River, IL | Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail. |
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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 545 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLSX 170029 SVRSTL ILC119-170100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 729 PM CDT SUN APR 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MADISON COUNTY ILLINOIS IN SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 728 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTHEAST OF ALTON... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED... LIVINGSTON PRAIRETOWN THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS DAMAGING HAIL. LARGE HAIL CAN CAUSE EXTENSIVE PROPERTY DAMAGE AN SERIOUS INJURY TO PEOPLE CAUGHT OUTDOORS. MOVE INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING IMMEDIATELY. GKS/ST
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Clair | 58 min |
| Apr 16, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin | 44 min |
| Apr 16, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 41 min |
| Apr 16, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Randolph | 56 min |
| Apr 16, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 54 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.