Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 294
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 19, 2005, 6:20 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 2005, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 20, 2005, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 52 counties
Bond County, IL, Cass County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clay County, IL, Clinton County, IL, Coles County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Macoupin County, IL, Madison County, IL, Marion County, IL, Menard County, IL, Monroe County, IL, Montgomery County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Perry County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Pope County, IL, Randolph County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL, Saline County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Union County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Washington County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Posey County, IN, Crittenden County, KY, Union County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Perry County, MO
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 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.
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash | 50 min |
| May 19, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Posey, Vanderburgh | 29 min |
| May 19, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan | 48 min |
| May 19, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 45 min |
| May 19, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas | 68 min |
| May 19, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Greene, Macoupin | 51 min |
| May 19, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cumberland | 50 min |
| May 19, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash | 32 min |
| May 19, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford, Effingham, Jasper | 69 min |
| May 19, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Bond, Macoupin, Madison, Montgomery | 47 min |
| May 19, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Lawrence, Richland | 67 min |
| May 19, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Bond, Clinton, Madison | 44 min |
| May 19, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison | 34 min |
| May 19, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash, Wayne | 60 min |
| May 19, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Saint Clair | 39 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 6:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 34 more | 92 min |
| May 19, 10:44 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Edwards, Effingham and 26 more | 3 hr |
| May 19, 11:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 32 more | 8 hr |
| May 19, 12:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, DuPage, Henry and 16 more | 2 hr |
| May 19, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy and 25 more | 8 hr |
| May 19, 3:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Crawford and 27 more | 84 min |
| May 19, 3:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 33 more | 85 min |
| May 19, 5:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 30 more | 91 min |
| May 19, 6:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 33 more | 90 min |
| May 19, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Perry and 4 more | 8 hr |
| May 19, 1:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Clay, Clinton and 38 more | 2 hr |
| May 19, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clay, Daviess, Decatur and 26 more | 7 hr |
| May 19, 3:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clay, Decatur, Fayette, Franklin and 17 more | 94 min |
| May 19, 3:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Perry, Pike and 3 more | 64 min |
| May 19, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Fountain and 18 more | 4 hr |
| May 19, 6:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Perry, Spencer and 2 more | 2 hr |
| May 19, 6:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clay, Daviess, Dearborn, Decatur and 12 more | 91 min |
| May 19, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 51 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 7:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jackson | 35 min |
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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.