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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 540

July 5, 200036 counties in Illinois; 33 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 5, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT for 36 counties in Illinois; 33 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 69 counties

Adams County, IL, Bond County, IL, Brown County, IL, Calhoun County, IL, Cass County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Clinton County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Greene County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Jersey County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Macoupin County, IL, Madison County, IL, Marion County, IL, Menard County, IL, Montgomery County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Pike County, IL, Richland County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Scott County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Adair County, MO, Audrain County, MO, Boone County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Chariton County, MO, City of Saint Louis, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Howard County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Lincoln County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Marion County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Pike County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saint Charles County, MO, Saint Louis County, MO, Saline County, MO, Shelby County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Warren County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXShelby60 min
Jul 5, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXFayette29 min
Jul 5, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXEffingham54 min
Jul 5, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLivingston31 min
Jul 5, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll, Ray57 min
Jul 5, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXFayette26 min
Jul 5, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson, Lafayette65 min
Jul 5, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXJasper61 min
Jul 5, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXClay54 min
Jul 5, 7:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXRichland58 min

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 239 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, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2000-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 113 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2000-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
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

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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
Jul 5, 1:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Cass, Christian, Fulton, Hancock and 19 more5 hr
Jul 5, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Andrew, Caldwell, Chariton, Daviess, DeKalb and 14 more4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, 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.