Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2002, 8:02 PM CDT for Stark County, Illinois. It was in force for 58 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
- May 11, 2002, 8:02 PM CDT (01:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stark County, IL
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 424 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 556 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 666 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KILX 120102 SVRSPI ILC175-120200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 800 PM CDT SAT MAY 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STARK COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 800 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER TOULON...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF WYOMING...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL STARK COUNTY WYOMING TOULON LARGE HAIL IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES WILL ACCOMPANY THIS DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 4107 8999 4103 8987 4108 8973 4121 8975 EH NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 38 min |
| May 12, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 47 min |
| May 12, 2:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 6 hr |
| May 12, 2:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Cass, Mason, Menard | 6 hr |
| May 12, 3:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Christian, Logan, Macon, Morgan, Sangamon, Scott | 6 hr |
| May 12, 5:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas, Macon, Moultrie, Piatt, Shelby | 6 hr |
| May 12, 5:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas, Moultrie, Piatt, Shelby | 6 hr |
| May 12, 6:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Edgar | 5 hr |
| May 12, 7:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Clark, Cumberland | 7 hr |
| May 12, 10:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Champaign, Vermilion | 6 hr |
| May 12, 12:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Clay, Crawford, Effingham, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland | 6 hr |
| May 12, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Effingham, Jasper | 39 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.