Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 31, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 2000, 6:13 PM CDT for Pike County, Illinois. It was in force for 47 min. 4 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
- Jun 20, 2000, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pike County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 6:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Martinsburg, IL | |
| Jun 20, 6:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Pittsfield, IL | |
| Jun 20, 6:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Milton, IL | |
| Jun 20, 6:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Pearl, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1033 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
798 WFUS53 KLSX 202313 TORSTL ILC149-210000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 613 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PIKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 613 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER PIKE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... PLEASANT HILL MARTINSBURG NEBO INDEPENDENCE MILTON SUMNER HILL PITTSFIELD 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 44 min |
| Jun 20, 1:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Fayette, Montgomery | 43 min |
| Jun 20, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 28 min |
| Jun 20, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Fayette | 50 min |
| Jun 20, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Fayette | 45 min |
| Jun 20, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 62 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.