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Tornado Warning 25, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2000, 11:06 PM CDT for Calhoun County, Pike County, Illinois. It was in force for 39 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
- May 26, 2000, 11:06 PM CDT (04:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Calhoun County, IL, Pike County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 26, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 505 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
060 WFUS53 KLSX 270407 TORSTL ILC013-149-270445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1106 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN PIKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS NORTHWESTERN CALHOUN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1106 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 2 MILES WEST OF PLEASANT HILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... INDEPENDENCE PLEASANT HILL DETROIT HILLCREST IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW A BASEMENT OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION. IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...MOVE TO THE LOWEST FLOOR AND SEEK SHELTER IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS. MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED IN FAVOR OF A MORE SUBSTANTIAL STRUCTURE. DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO IN A VEHICLE. LAT...LON 3954 9111 3931 9083 3931 9061 3968 9064 RP
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams, Pike | 38 min |
| May 26, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Brown, Pike | 43 min |
| May 26, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Greene | 41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.