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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Lincoln, IL

April 24, 2002Menard County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2002, 2:51 PM CDT for Menard County, Illinois. It was in force for 39 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: Apr 24, 2002, 2:51 PM CDT (19:51 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2002, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Menard County, IL

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 24, 10:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Apr 24, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 105 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1489 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KILX 241951
SVRSPI
ILC129-242030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
250 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MENARD COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 250 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER TALLULA...OR ABOUT 13 MILES EAST OF
  VIRGINIA...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  TALLULA
  PETERSBURG
  ATHENS
  GREENVIEW

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 4006 8998 3993 8999 3994 8974 4002 8961
          4011 8963

KETCHAM 
NNNN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 24, 12:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Morgan, Scott	64 min
Apr 24, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Schuyler	64 min
Apr 24, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Sangamon	47 min
Apr 24, 2:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cass	41 min
Apr 24, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Mason	50 min
Apr 24, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Logan, Tazewell	62 min
Apr 24, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Effingham	61 min
Apr 24, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay	43 min
Apr 24, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cumberland, Jasper	46 min
Apr 24, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Crawford	40 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.