Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 651
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.
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
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Grundy, Kendall, LaSalle | 57 min |
| Aug 6, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lake | 30 min |
| Aug 6, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Porter | 47 min |
| Aug 6, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte | 46 min |
| Aug 6, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 45 min |
| Aug 6, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Starke | 38 min |
| Aug 6, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski | 37 min |
| Aug 6, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Marshall | 45 min |
| Aug 6, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton | 53 min |
| Aug 6, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 49 min |
| Aug 6, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | White | 51 min |
| Aug 6, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Moultrie | 48 min |
| Aug 6, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Parke, Vermillion | 25 min |
| Aug 6, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles | 43 min |
| Aug 6, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Edgar | 60 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.
- 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 6, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Delaware, Elkhart 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.