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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 593

June 25, 200350 counties in Illinois; 14 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 25, 2003, 5:15 PM CDT for 50 counties in Illinois; 14 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 25, 2003, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 64 counties

Adams County, IL, Boone County, IL, Brown County, IL, Bureau County, IL, Calhoun County, IL, Cass County, IL, Christian County, IL, Cook County, IL, DeKalb County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, DuPage County, IL, Ford County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Greene County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Henry County, IL, Jersey County, IL, Kane County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Kendall County, IL, Knox County, IL, Lake County, IL, LaSalle County, IL, Lee County, IL, Livingston County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Macoupin County, IL, Madison County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Mason County, IL, McDonough County, IL, McHenry County, IL, McLean County, IL, Menard County, IL, Montgomery County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Ogle County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Pike County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Scott County, IL, Stark County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Will County, IL, Winnebago County, IL, Woodford County, IL, Audrain County, MO, Callaway County, MO, City of Saint Louis, MO, Cole County, MO, Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Lincoln County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Osage County, MO, Pike County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Saint Charles County, MO, Saint Louis County, MO, Warren County, MO

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 8:18 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXAudrain, Pike, Ralls6 hr
Jun 25, 8:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXLincoln6 hr

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2003-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 875 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2003-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 109 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
875 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-121 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1114 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 11:50 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Carroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Lee and 7 more115 min
Jun 25, 12:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCarroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Mercer, Ogle and 5 more6 hr
Jun 25, 12:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCHancock5 hr
Jun 25, 2:43 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson and 13 more2 hr
Jun 25, 4:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Bond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass and 70 more113 min
Jun 25, 10:36 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll and 22 more114 min
Jun 25, 6:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarry, Christian, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton and 1 more83 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.