Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 537
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 5, 2000, 1:00 PM CDT for 25 counties in Illinois; 8 counties in Iowa; 5 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2000, 1:00 PM CDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties
Des Moines County, IA, Henry County, IA, Jefferson County, IA, Keokuk County, IA, Lee County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Washington County, IA, Adams County, IL, Brown County, IL, Cass County, IL, Christian County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Knox County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Mason County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Menard County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Pike County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Scott County, IL, Stark County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Warren County, IL, Woodford County, IL, Clark County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Marion County, MO, Scotland County, MO
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:00 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.
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jefferson, Van Buren | 58 min |
| Jul 5, 2:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Jefferson, Van Buren | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 61 min |
| Jul 5, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Hancock, McDonough | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams | 35 min |
| Jul 5, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Brown | 40 min |
| Jul 5, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Mason, Morgan | 50 min |
| Jul 5, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 50 min |
| Jul 5, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Scott | 50 min |
| Jul 5, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 33 min |
| Jul 5, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Mason, Menard, Sangamon | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian | 65 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 30 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 10:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 33 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Clarke, Davis and 9 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2000Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2000
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.