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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Lincoln, IL

April 12, 2002Moultrie County, Shelby County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 2002, 3:09 PM CDT for Moultrie County, Shelby County, Illinois. It was in force for 51 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 12, 2002, 3:09 PM CDT (20:09 UTC)
Expired: Apr 12, 2002, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Moultrie County, IL, Shelby County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 215 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1073 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KILX 122009
SVRSPI
ILC139-173-122100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
308 PM CDT FRI APR 12 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MOULTRIE COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  SHELBY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 308 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF BETHANY
  TO 10 MILES WEST OF COWDEN...OR FROM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DECATUR
  TO 14 MILES EAST OF NOKOMIS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  DALTON CITY
  FINDLAY
  BETHANY
  LAKEWOOD
  SHELBYVILLE
  LOVINGTON
  COWDEN
  SULLIVAN
  WINDSOR

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 3975 8877 3966 8882 3923 8907 3922 8849
          3979 8849

BYRD
NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 12, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Vermilion	44 min
Apr 12, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, Shelby	45 min
Apr 12, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Effingham	28 min
Apr 12, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Douglas, Edgar, Vermilion	53 min
Apr 12, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cumberland, Effingham	43 min
Apr 12, 3:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign, Douglas	35 min
Apr 12, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles	54 min
Apr 12, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Edgar, Vermilion	59 min
Apr 12, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay	47 min
Apr 12, 5:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Edgar, Vermilion	4 hr
Apr 12, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Richland	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.