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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2001, 5:35 PM CDT for Schuyler County, Illinois. It was in force for 55 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2001, 5:35 PM CDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Schuyler County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 5:51 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 M | Macomb, IL | 64 mph thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees four to six inches in diameter. Reported by trained spotter. |
| Jun 14, 5:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Huntsville, IL | Numerous tree limbs and several small trees were blown down. |
| Jun 14, 6:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Macomb, IL | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines. |
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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 663 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1211 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KILX 142236 SVRSPI ILC169-142330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 535 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SCHUYLER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 535 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF BROOKLYN TO 31 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BROOKLYN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... BROOKLYN LITTLETON RUSHVILLE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 65 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 4047 9104 3970 9110 4005 9046 4056 9047 NNNN KMH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Knox | 56 min |
| Jun 14, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria, Stark, Tazewell | 53 min |
| Jun 14, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Mason | 53 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.