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Tornado Warning 32, NWS St. Louis, MO

June 24, 2000Clinton County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 2000, 3:52 PM CDT for Clinton County, Illinois. It was in force for 23 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: Jun 24, 2000, 3:52 PM CDT (20:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2000, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Clinton County, IL

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 178 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -319 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1120 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KLSX 242053
TORSTL
ILC027-242115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
352 PM CDT SAT JUN 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN CLINTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 352 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER CARLYLE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH...
  BOULDER
  SHATTUC

AT 352 PM CDT LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE PUBLIC REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 
NORTHEAST OF BECKEMEYER.

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 3875 8946 3851 8940 3850 8915 3874 8915

EL/RP/GKS

The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Calhoun	48 min
Jun 23, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Jersey	45 min
Jun 23, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Macoupin	47 min
Jun 23, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Calhoun	45 min
Jun 23, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Adams	38 min
Jun 23, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Madison	49 min
Jun 23, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Greene, Jersey	43 min
Jun 23, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Adams	45 min
Jun 23, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Calhoun	41 min
Jun 23, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Madison	46 min
Jun 23, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Marion	52 min
Jun 23, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Madison	41 min
Jun 23, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Marion	44 min
Jun 24, 1:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Calhoun, Clinton, Jersey, Madison, Marion, Saint Clair and 1 more	4 hr
Jun 24, 5:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Calhoun, Clinton, Jersey, Madison, Marion, Saint Clair and 1 more	4 hr
Jun 24, 9:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Clinton, Marion, Saint Clair, Washington	4 hr
Jun 24, 2:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Monroe, Saint Clair	52 min
Jun 24, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Clair	39 min
Jun 24, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Jersey, Macoupin	47 min
Jun 24, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Clinton	52 min
Jun 24, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Bond	39 min
Jun 24, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Montgomery	47 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.