Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 436
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 8, 2005, 12:00 PM CDT for 24 counties in Illinois; Des Moines County, Henry County, Lee County, Iowa; Marion County, Pike County, Ralls County, Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2005, 12:00 PM CDT (17:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2005, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties
Des Moines County, IA, Henry County, IA, Lee County, IA, Adams County, IL, Brown County, IL, Cass County, IL, Christian County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Greene County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Knox County, IL, Logan County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Mason County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Menard County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Pike County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Scott County, IL, Stark County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Warren County, IL, Woodford County, IL, Marion County, MO, Pike County, MO, Ralls County, MO
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:59 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
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 12:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Henry | 40 min |
| Jun 8, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Louisa | 71 min |
| Jun 8, 12:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Henderson, Mercer | 56 min |
| Jun 8, 1:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Hancock | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Warren | 68 min |
| Jun 8, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 66 min |
| Jun 8, 1:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | McDonough | 69 min |
| Jun 8, 1:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Lewis, Marion, Shelby | 44 min |
| Jun 8, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 66 min |
| Jun 8, 1:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Adams | 42 min |
| Jun 8, 1:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Knox | 30 min |
| Jun 8, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 56 min |
| Jun 8, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 33 min |
| Jun 8, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall, Peoria, Stark | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Mason, Tazewell | 66 min |
| Jun 8, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 50 min |
| Jun 8, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Menard, Sangamon | 56 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 1707 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 9:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Hancock | 28 min |
| Jun 8, 11:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Fulton and 19 more | 29 min |
| Jun 8, 1:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass and 47 more | 23 min |
| Jun 8, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign and 48 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 8, 4:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clinton, Coles and 30 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 8, 6:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 40 more | 83 min |
| Jun 7, 9:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lyon, Sioux | 7 hr |
| Jun 7, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Audubon, Cass, Cherokee, Crawford, Fremont and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 8, 8:55 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Lucas, Ringgold and 1 more | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 9:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Henry, Jefferson and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Fremont, Guthrie and 8 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 8, 1:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone, Buchanan and 38 more | 27 min |
| Jun 8, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Bates, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden and 30 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 8, 4:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Bates, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden and 29 more | 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.