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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2002, 5:57 PM CDT for Cass County, Illinois. It was in force for 63 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, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2002, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cass County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 81 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 143 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.
614 WUUS53 KILX 222257 SVRSPI ILC017-230000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 556 PM CDT MON JUL 22 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CASS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 556 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLUFF SPRINGS...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF WINCHESTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BLUFF SPRINGS VIRGINIA CHANDLERVILLE 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 4006 9037 3990 9052 3995 9004 4005 9007 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, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 66 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.