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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 14, 2003Clark County, Coles County, Edgar County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2003, 9:38 PM CDT for Clark County, Coles County, Edgar County, Illinois. It was in force for 37 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 14, 2003, 9:38 PM CDT (02:38 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2003, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Clark County, IL, Coles County, IL, Edgar County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:42 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 14, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 1529 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1142 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 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.

920 
WUUS53 KILX 150238
SVRILX
ILC023-029-045-150315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
937 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EDGAR COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  COLES COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  CLARK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 937 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM BROCTON TO ASHMORE TO
  MATTOON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  CHARLESTON
  ASHMORE
  REDMON
  WESTFIELD
  PARIS
  CLARKSVILLE
  PARIS
  OLIVER
  VERMILION
  DENNISON
  MARSHALL

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 3985 8796 3969 8795 3961 8819 3946 8845
          3933 8787 3937 8756 3974 8756

$$

BYRD

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	60 min
May 14, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton, Knox	58 min
May 14, 7:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Piatt	58 min
May 14, 7:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Macon	46 min
May 14, 7:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Douglas, Edgar	54 min
May 14, 7:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign, Piatt	46 min
May 14, 8:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Fulton, Mason	41 min
May 14, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Morgan, Scott	58 min
May 14, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Cumberland	39 min
May 14, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Effingham	46 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.