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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2002, 5:54 PM CDT for Morgan County, Scott County, Illinois. It was in force for 66 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2002, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2002, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Morgan County, IL, Scott County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 821 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1415 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
641 WUUS53 KILX 222254 SVRSPI ILC137-171-230000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 553 PM CDT MON JUL 22 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MORGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS SCOTT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 553 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BLUFFS...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF WINCHESTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CHAPIN MEREDOSIA CONCORD OXVILLE EXETER THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DAMAGING HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 3987 9055 3968 9057 3976 9016 3986 9023 EH NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 5:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Champaign, Piatt | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass | 63 min |
| Jul 22, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Mason | 65 min |
| Jul 22, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Vermilion | 44 min |
| Jul 22, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Menard | 58 min |
| Jul 22, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan | 57 min |
| Jul 22, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt | 40 min |
| Jul 22, 6:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan | 3 hr |
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.