Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2002, 5:21 PM CDT for Effingham County, Jasper 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
- May 12, 2002, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Effingham County, IL, Jasper 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 829 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KILX 122221 SVRSPI ILC049-079-122300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 521 PM CDT SUN MAY 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN EFFINGHAM COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 521 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER TEUTOPOLIS...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF EFFINGHAM...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WHEELER HIDALGO 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 3916 8855 3904 8853 3901 8797 3919 8799 KH 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 11, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Stark | 58 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 |
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.