Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 374
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 27, 2000, 12:00 AM CDT for 41 counties in Illinois; 6 counties in Indiana; Henderson County, Union County, Webster County, Kentucky. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2000, 12:00 AM CDT (05:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2000, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Bond County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Clinton County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Macoupin County, IL, Madison County, IL, Marion County, IL, Mason County, IL, Menard County, IL, Montgomery County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Perry County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Randolph County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL, Saline County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Washington County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Gibson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Posey County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Henderson County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Logan, Macon, Sangamon | 50 min |
| May 27, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon, Moultrie, Piatt | 61 min |
| May 27, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Shelby | 61 min |
| May 27, 1:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas, Edgar | 46 min |
| May 27, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cumberland | 47 min |
| May 27, 2:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark | 35 min |
| May 27, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Crawford, Jasper, Richland | 53 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison, Monroe and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Clay, Clinton and 13 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 10:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Butler, Calloway, Casey and 22 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Clinton, Estill, Floyd and 20 more | 6 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.