Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Lincoln, IL

Issued

May 22, 2001, 1:25 PM CDT (18:25 UTC)

Expired

May 22, 2001, 2:15 PM CDT

In force

50 min

Issued by

NWS Lincoln, IL

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties DeWitt County, IL, Macon County, IL

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:27 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.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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WUUS53 KILX 221826
SVRSPI

ILC039-115-221915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
125 PM CDT TUE MAY 22 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DE WITT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  MACON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 215 PM CDT

* AT 125 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM WAYNESVILLE TO BLUE MOUND...OR
  FROM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF CLINTON TO 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  TAYLORVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  CLINTON
  FORSYTH
  MACON
  MAROA
  DECATUR
  OREANA
  ARGENTA
  MOUNT ZION

DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH WILL ACCOMPANY THIS DANGEROUS
STORM. GO TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES IF YOU ARE IN THE
WARNED AREA.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR ANY STORM DAMAGE TO YOUR LOCAL ESDA...OR THE
NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

LAT...LON 4028 8915 3993 8913 3967 8917 3967 8883
          4001 8877 4029 8865

BYRD
NNNN

NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 22, 10:25 AM CDT, 3 hours earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
1025 AM CDT TUE MAY 22 2001

IR SATELLITE SHOWS MAIN UPPER LOW CENTERED NEAR DLH. IMAGERY LOOP
SUGGESTS MINOR VORT LOBE STRECTHING NE TO SW ACROS THE WESTERN 1/3
OF IA...ROTATING TO THE ESE.  DVN SOUNDING THIS MORNING SHOWS GOOD
INSTABILITY WITH CURRENT COLD AIR ALOFT...54 TOTAL TOTALS. ALSO MORE
COLD AIR MOVING INTO THE AREA. EXPECT DAYTIME HEATING TO TRIGGER
DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED SHOWERS ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS
TODAY. WITH THE SIGNIFICANT INSTABILITY...THERE IS A CHANCE OF
THUNDERSHOWERS ALSO.  PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS WILL BE LIGHT THOUGH
WITH PRECIPITATION MOVING FAST DUE TO GOOD WINDS ALOFT.

WILL ISSUE UPDATE OF ZONES...AS WILL HAVE TO INCREASE AFTERNOON
HIGHS SLIGHTLY DUE TO THE MORNING SUNSHINE.  WILL KEEP THUNDERSHOWER
CHANCES.

GOETSCH

In the hours before

ILZ027>031-036>038-040>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-231000-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
1100 AM CDT TUE MAY 22 2001

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND POSSIBLY A THUNDERSHOWER WILL DEVELOP OVER
CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING...AS
A STRONG UPPER LOW SPINS OVER THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES.

HOWEVER...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED OVER THE REGION THROUGH
TONIGHT.

GOETSCH

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.