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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 743

September 20, 200017 counties in Illinois; 26 counties in Indiana

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 20, 2000, 1:30 PM CDT for 17 counties in Illinois; 26 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 20, 2000, 1:30 PM CDT (18:30 UTC)
Expired
Sep 20, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties

Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Marion County, IL, Perry County, IL, Richland County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Boone County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Knox County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 20, 3:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDGreene, Monroe, Owen47 min
Sep 20, 3:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDJohnson, Marion, Morgan43 min
Sep 20, 3:42 PM CDTTornado WarningINDBrown, Monroe33 min
Sep 20, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMadison45 min
Sep 20, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHWabash24 min
Sep 20, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHGibson, Posey24 min
Sep 20, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDelaware26 min
Sep 20, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHPike34 min
Sep 20, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHEdwards, Wabash, White36 min
Sep 20, 4:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHVanderburgh, Warrick38 min

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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 2000-09-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-09-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1008 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 20, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Dearborn and 32 more6 hr

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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.