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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 19, 2001Vermilion County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2001, 7:14 PM CDT for Vermilion County, Illinois. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 2001, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Lincoln, IL
Area
Whole counties

County Vermilion County, IL

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 74 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 00:00Z on 2001-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 225 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2001-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -34 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
225 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1405 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-1.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 19, 2:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 2:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
245 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2001

FORECAST CONCERNS THIS PD INCLUDES SVR POTENTIAL ACRS SRN HALF OF
CWA INTO THIS EVENING...AND THEN AREAL EXTENT AND DURATION OF PRECIP
OVRNGT INTO WED.

18Z SFC ANALYSIS AND MSAS LI/S INDICATE CDFNT LOCATED FROM JUST SOUTH
OF CHI TO NR PIA TO EAST OF JACKSONVILLE. WEAK WAVE ON BNDRY NR PIA
HAS SLOWED THE EWD PROGRESSION OF BNDRY. HOWEVER...AS WAVE SHIFTS
TO THE NE...FNT SHOULD BEGIN A SLOW CRAWL ACRS THE CWFA LT THIS AFTN
INTO THIS EVENING. BEST INSTABILITY AXIS ALINGED ALONG AND SOUTH OF
FRONT WITH CU DVLPG RAPIDLY OVR THE SE HALF OF FCST AREA. ONCE AGAIN
THE AVN AND ETA WERE SIMILAR IN THE SHORT TERM WITH NOT MUCH TIME TO
LOOK OVR THE AVN BEYOND 72 HRS.

BAND OF ELEVATED INSTABILITY SHOWERS AND TSRA ACRS NRN MO AND SRN IA
SHIFTING EWD THIS AFTN WITH CLOUD TOP TEMPS WARMING AS IT HEADS EAST.
310K ISENTROPIC FCSTS SUGGEST BEST LIFT AND MOISTURE ACRS THE NRN
HALF OF FCST AREA LATE TNT INTO WED MRNG. ETA STILL ADVERTISING
FCST AREA TO BE IN FAVORED RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OF JET OVRNGT WITH
IMPRESSIVE 250 MB DIFFLUENCE FCST ACRS AREA LATE. LOW LVLS SHOULD
RESPOND TO UPPER LVL FORCING WITH AN INCREASE IN LOW LVL CONVERGENCE
(1000-850 MB THETA-E CONVERGENCE) ALONG SWWD MOVING CDFNT. ELEVATED
CONVECTION SHOULD EXPAND NORTH OF BNDRY OVRNGT WHILE MORE SFC BASED
CONVECTION...WHICH IS DVLPG ACRS THE SRN HALF OF THE CWA THIS AFTN
SHOULD PREVAIL LATE INTO THE EVENING OVR THE SOUTH. PRECIP WL SLOWLY
SHIFT SOUTH WED AS UPPER SUPPORT MOVES AWAY AND SFC HIGH BUILDS SE
COUNTIES NOT SEEING AN END TO THE RAIN THREAT UNTIL LATER WED NIGHT.

UPPER TROF FCST TO MOVE ACRS THE STATE ON THURSDAY WITH ETA PULLING
BACK ON PRECIP CHANCES. BASED ON TIMING OF TROF PASSAGE...WL KEEP
PRECIP CHANCES GOING THU INTO THU NIGHT WITH A DRIER AIR MASS FCST
TO PUSH THROUGH THE CWA FRIDAY. MRF PULLING BACK FROM ITS ORIGINAL
FCST WITH CLOSED LOW ACRS THE TN VALLEY WITH NEW MODEL DATA SUGGESTING
A MORE PROGRESSIVE TRACK (MORE IN LINE WITH THE EURO MODELS) THIS
WEEKEND RATHER THAN FEATURE RETROGRADING INTO THE SERN PTN OF IL.
WL PULL MENTION OF SHOWERS OUT OF THE SE FOR FRIDAY BASED ON CURRENT
MODEL TRENDS.

...PRELIMINARY CCF FOR COORDINATION PURPOSES ONLY.

SPI WB 065/080 057/077 054 44775
PIA WB 063/078 055/075 052 44764
DEC WB 065/080 057/077 054 44775
CMI WB 064/078 055/075 052 44774
MTO TB 067/081 059/078 055 44776
LWV TB 068/084 062/080 057 44776

.ILX...NONE.

SMITH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 19, 5:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN, IL
549 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0515 PM    RIDGE FARM                IL   WIND DAMAGE
06/19/01   VERMILION                      TREES AND POWER POLES
                                          BLOWN DOWN IN TOWN.
                                          VERMILION COUNTY ESDA.

GOETSCH
Local storm report, Jun 19, 7:07 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN, IL
707 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
u
0620 PM    LOVINGTON                 IL   .88 INCH HAIL
06/19/01   MOULTRIE                       DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
                                          REPORTED BY COOP OBSERVER.

GEELHART

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.