Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 651

August 6, 200032 counties in Illinois; 22 counties in Indiana

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 6, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT for 32 counties in Illinois; 22 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 6, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired
Aug 6, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 54 counties

Cass County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, Coles County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Ford County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Greene County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Jersey County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Livingston County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Macoupin County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Mason County, IL, McLean County, IL, Menard County, IL, Montgomery County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Woodford County, IL, Benton County, IN, Boone County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Lake County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Newton County, IN, Parke County, IN, Porter County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Warren County, IN, White County, IN

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 6, 4:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTGrundy, Kendall, LaSalle57 min
Aug 6, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTLake30 min
Aug 6, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTPorter47 min
Aug 6, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaPorte46 min
Aug 6, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXSaint Joseph45 min
Aug 6, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXStarke38 min
Aug 6, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXPulaski37 min
Aug 6, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXMarshall45 min
Aug 6, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXFulton53 min
Aug 6, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXSaint Joseph49 min
Aug 6, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWhite51 min
Aug 6, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMoultrie48 min
Aug 6, 8:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDParke, Vermillion25 min
Aug 6, 9:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXColes43 min
Aug 6, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXEdgar60 min

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 38 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 12:00Z on 2000-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1269 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2000-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 187 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
1269 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-182 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1212 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
187 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
13.4

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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
Aug 6, 1:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 19 more6 hr
Aug 6, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Delaware, Elkhart and 20 more6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 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.