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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 185

April 20, 200067 counties in Illinois; Clinton County, Scott County, Iowa; 13 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 20, 2000, 4:15 AM CDT for 67 counties in Illinois; Clinton County, Scott County, Iowa; 13 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 20, 2000, 4:15 AM CDT (09:15 UTC)
Expired
Apr 20, 2000, 10:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 82 counties

Clinton County, IA, Scott County, IA, Adams County, IL, Bond County, IL, Boone County, IL, Brown County, IL, Bureau County, IL, Calhoun County, IL, Carroll County, IL, Cass County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clinton County, IL, Cook County, IL, DeKalb County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, DuPage County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Ford County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Greene County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Henry County, IL, Jersey County, IL, Jo Daviess County, IL, Kane County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Kendall County, IL, Knox County, IL, Lake County, IL, LaSalle County, IL, Lee County, IL, Livingston County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Macoupin County, IL, Madison County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Mason County, IL, McDonough County, IL, McHenry County, IL, McLean County, IL, Menard County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Monroe County, IL, Montgomery County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Ogle County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Pike County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Scott County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Stark County, IL, Stephenson County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Warren County, IL, Washington County, IL, Whiteside County, IL, Will County, IL, Winnebago County, IL, Woodford County, IL, City of Saint Louis, MO, Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Jefferson County, MO, Lincoln County, MO, Maries County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Osage County, MO, Pike County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Saint Charles County, MO, Saint Louis County, MO, Warren County, MO

Warnings issued inside it

41 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 20, 4:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXLincoln, Pike64 min
Apr 20, 4:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSaint Louis, City of Saint Louis50 min
Apr 20, 4:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSaint Charles50 min
Apr 20, 4:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCalhoun, Pike51 min
Apr 20, 4:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNHenderson, Mercer, Warren44 min
Apr 20, 4:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXCass, Morgan, Schuyler56 min
Apr 20, 4:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXScott56 min
Apr 20, 4:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXGreene, Jersey46 min
Apr 20, 4:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXKnox49 min
Apr 20, 5:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMacoupin49 min
Apr 20, 5:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNHenry, Rock Island51 min
Apr 20, 5:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXFulton, Mason54 min
Apr 20, 5:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMenard, Sangamon54 min
Apr 20, 5:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXStark27 min
Apr 20, 5:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTGrundy, Kendall, Will30 min
Apr 20, 5:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXLogan, Peoria, Tazewell43 min
Apr 20, 6:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMarshall, Woodford43 min
Apr 20, 6:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMcLean43 min
Apr 20, 6:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXDeWitt, Macon47 min
Apr 20, 6:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTGrundy, LaSalle, Livingston45 min
Apr 20, 6:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTFord33 min
Apr 20, 7:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTKendall, Will60 min
Apr 20, 7:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTIroquois, Kankakee60 min
Apr 20, 7:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXJersey42 min
Apr 20, 7:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXGreene46 min
Apr 20, 7:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTCook51 min
Apr 20, 7:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTDuPage, Kane51 min
Apr 20, 7:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMorgan, Sangamon42 min
Apr 20, 8:02 AM CDTTornado WarningLSXMacoupin43 min
Apr 20, 8:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXSangamon48 min
Apr 20, 8:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXLogan44 min
Apr 20, 8:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXDeWitt, McLean53 min
Apr 20, 8:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMontgomery51 min
Apr 20, 9:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXChristian40 min
Apr 20, 9:06 AM CDTTornado WarningILXDeWitt, Logan, Macon39 min
Apr 20, 9:30 AM CDTTornado WarningILXMcLean60 min
Apr 20, 9:33 AM CDTTornado WarningILXPiatt42 min
Apr 20, 9:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMoultrie, Shelby56 min
Apr 20, 9:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBond, Clinton, Fayette48 min
Apr 20, 9:45 AM CDTTornado WarningILXDeWitt30 min
Apr 20, 9:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTFord, Livingston39 min

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 141 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2000-04-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2000-04-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 334 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1377 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
334 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
489 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 19, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCJo Daviess4 hr
Apr 19, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Cass, Fulton, Hancock, McDonough and 3 more6 hr
Apr 20, 12:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 28 more5 hr
Apr 20, 3:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlexander, Jackson, Perry, Randolph, Union5 hr
Apr 20, 10:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBond, Champaign, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 30 more6 hr
Apr 19, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Andrew, Barton, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 27 more6 hr
Apr 20, 12:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarry, Christian, Douglas, McDonald, Newton, Ozark and 2 more6 hr

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.