Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 215, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 22, 2000, 6:13 PM CDT for Johnson County, Union County, Illinois. It was in force for 32 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
- Sep 22, 2000, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Johnson County, IL, Union County, IL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 6:32 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 53 E | Cypress, IL | Trained spotters estimated wind gusts between 60 and 65 MPH. Trees were uprooted along Route 37 a few miles north of Buncombe, blocking the road. The high winds took portions of a roof off a house and caused an undetermined number of homes to lose power. |
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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 304 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
- 242 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1064 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander, Pulaski | 25 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.