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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2003, 12:06 AM CDT for Champaign County, Illinois. It was in force for 54 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 10, 2003, 12:06 AM CDT (05:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2003, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Champaign County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:06 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 9, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 1901 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
438 WUUS53 KILX 100506 SVRILX ILC019-100600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 1206 AM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 100 AM CDT * AT 1206 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF MAHOMET...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHAMPAIGN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LAKE OF THE WOODS FISHER THOMASBORO RANTOUL GIFFORD ST. JOSEPH OGDEN 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 4037 8844 4017 8843 4006 8794 4038 8797 $$ SMITH NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Menard, Morgan, Sangamon | 64 min |
| May 9, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 29 min |
| May 9, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean, Tazewell, Woodford | 56 min |
| May 9, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian | 38 min |
| May 9, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean, Tazewell, Woodford | 51 min |
| May 9, 8:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian | 43 min |
| May 9, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay | 60 min |
| May 9, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Schuyler | 61 min |
| May 9, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 53 min |
| May 9, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Jasper | 44 min |
| May 9, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon, Shelby | 43 min |
| May 9, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford | 67 min |
| May 9, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Lawrence, Richland | 17 min |
| May 9, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Lawrence | 46 min |
| May 9, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 66 min |
| May 9, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 65 min |
| May 9, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark | 34 min |
| May 9, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan, Sangamon | 49 min |
| May 9, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell | 57 min |
| May 9, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Lawrence | 24 min |
| May 9, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall, Woodford | 55 min |
| May 9, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt | 51 min |
| May 10, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 42 min |
| May 10, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 50 min |
| May 10, 2:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Macon | 44 min |
| May 10, 2:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Piatt | 46 min |
| May 10, 6:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Scott | 48 min |
| May 10, 6:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan | 62 min |
| May 10, 7:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 4 hr |
| May 10, 7:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 58 min |
| May 10, 7:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Moultrie, Shelby | 35 min |
| May 10, 7:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon | 39 min |
| May 10, 7:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 4 hr |
| May 10, 7:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian | 64 min |
| May 10, 7:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian, Sangamon | 62 min |
| May 10, 8:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Christian | 4 hr |
| May 10, 8:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Macon, Shelby | 49 min |
| May 10, 8:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Macon, Shelby | 4 hr |
| May 10, 8:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Moultrie | 38 min |
| May 10, 8:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Piatt | 34 min |
| May 10, 8:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Edgar | 32 min |
| May 10, 8:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian | 47 min |
| May 10, 9:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas, Edgar, Moultrie | 4 hr |
| May 10, 9:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Shelby | 60 min |
| May 10, 9:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas | 54 min |
| May 10, 9:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Champaign, Vermilion | 4 hr |
| May 10, 10:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Edgar | 54 min |
| May 10, 10:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clark, Coles, Cumberland | 42 min |
| May 10, 10:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Clark, Cumberland, Effingham | 4 hr |
| May 10, 10:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Effingham, Moultrie, Shelby | 51 min |
| May 10, 11:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Edgar, Jasper | 60 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.