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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2003, 11:36 PM CDT for DeWitt 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 8, 2003, 11:36 PM CDT (04:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2003, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County DeWitt County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 8, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 743 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
565 WUUS53 KILX 090436 SVRILX ILC039-090515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 1136 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DE WITT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT * AT 1136 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF KENNEY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF LINCOLN...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CLINTON WAPELLA 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 4027 8913 4008 8914 4009 8881 4028 8861 $$ PLAHMER NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 55 min |
| May 8, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 60 min |
| May 8, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass | 43 min |
| May 8, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Mason | 58 min |
| May 8, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 66 min |
| May 8, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 59 min |
| May 8, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 58 min |
| May 8, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Morgan, Scott | 57 min |
| May 8, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Mason | 45 min |
| May 8, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Peoria, Stark | 60 min |
| May 8, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Menard, Sangamon | 54 min |
| May 8, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall, Woodford | 52 min |
| May 8, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan | 51 min |
| May 8, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 71 min |
| May 8, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon | 48 min |
| May 9, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Piatt | 30 min |
| May 9, 12:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign | 52 min |
| May 9, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 42 min |
| May 9, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 65 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.