Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 16, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 12, 2000, 6:49 PM CDT for Fayette County, Illinois. It was in force for 51 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
- May 12, 2000, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 7:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, IL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Vandalia, IL | A small tornado formed in Fayette County south of Vandalia. One mobile home was destroyed, a boat dock at a pond destroyed and several trees downed. Power lines were also downed. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 2035 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -305 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1023 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
277 WFUS53 KLSX 122349 TORSTL ILC051-130035- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 649 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 740 PM CDT * AT 645 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO JUST EAST OF GOVERNOR BOND LAKE... MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... VANDALIA SHAFTER VANDALIA LAKE DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED AT GOVERNORS LAKE A STORM CHASER REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUD 4 MILES NORTH OF I70 AND 4 MILES WEST OF THE FAYETTE - BOND COUNTY LINE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION IF IN THE PATH...TAKE COVER NOW MOVE TO A BASEMENT IF AVAILABLE. IF NOT...STAY ON THE LOWEST LEVEL AND GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. MOBILE HOMES AND AUTOMOBILESHOULD BE ABANDONED IN FAVOR OF A STRONG STRUCTURE. AS A LAST RESORT... MOVE TO A DITCH OR CULVERT AND COVER YOUR HEAD. RP/ST/GKS &
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Greene | 49 min |
| May 12, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jersey | 51 min |
| May 12, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Greene | 50 min |
| May 12, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin | 48 min |
| May 12, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jersey, Macoupin | 48 min |
| May 12, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 58 min |
| May 12, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Bond, Madison | 64 min |
| May 12, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Bond, Madison | 50 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.