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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 734

September 11, 200018 counties in Illinois; Des Moines County, Lee County, Iowa; 7 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 11, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT for 18 counties in Illinois; Des Moines County, Lee County, Iowa; 7 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 11, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired
Sep 12, 2000, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties

Des Moines County, IA, Lee County, IA, Adams County, IL, Brown County, IL, Cass County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Henry County, IL, Knox County, IL, LaSalle County, IL, Marshall County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Pike County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Stark County, IL, Warren County, IL, Clark County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Marion County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Shelby County, MO

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 11, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNHenry, Rock Island, Whiteside45 min
Sep 11, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNMercer55 min
Sep 11, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXAdams, Brown65 min
Sep 11, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNBureau, Henry, Whiteside62 min
Sep 11, 9:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNHenderson, Warren27 min
Sep 11, 9:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXKnox57 min
Sep 11, 9:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNDes Moines27 min
Sep 11, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXFulton, Schuyler54 min
Sep 11, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXPike58 min
Sep 11, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXAudrain, Pike, Ralls58 min
Sep 11, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNPutnam65 min
Sep 11, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXPeoria, Stark63 min
Sep 11, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTGrundy, Kendall, LaSalle, Will62 min
Sep 11, 10:19 PM CDTTornado WarningILXFulton, Knox26 min
Sep 11, 10:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXCass, Morgan, Sangamon64 min
Sep 11, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMarshall62 min

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 166 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 00:00Z on 2000-09-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1371 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 00:00Z on 2000-09-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 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
1371 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2176 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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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
Sep 11, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, Henry, Jo Daviess, Lee and 6 more4 hr
Sep 11, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBond, Calhoun, Champaign, Christian, Clinton, DeWitt and 27 more5 hr
Sep 11, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Camden, Cedar, Christian, Dade and 20 more4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, 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.