Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2006, 6:36 PM CDT for Fayette 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 30, 2006, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2006, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Fayette County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 445 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1096 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KLSX 302336
SVRLSX
ILC051-310015-
/O.NEW.KLSX.SV.W.0310.060530T2336Z-060531T0015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
636 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 635 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF VANDALIA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SHOBONIER...
VANDALIA...
BROWNSTOWN...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO
AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
LAT...LON 3907 8925 3879 8926 3897 8882 3921 8882
3922 8890
$$
GLASS2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KLSX 302353
SVSLSX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
652 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006
ILC051-310015-
/O.CON.KLSX.SV.W.0310.000000T0000Z-060531T0015Z/
FAYETTE IL-
652 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CDT
FOR FAYETTE COUNTY...
AT 649 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH OVER HAGERSTOWN...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE...
SHOBONIER...VANDALIA...BROWNSTOWN AND AVENA.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO
AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
LAT...LON 3907 8925 3879 8926 3897 8882 3921 8882
3922 8890
$$
GLASS000
WWUS53 KLSX 310019
SVSLSX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
715 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006
ILC051-310025-
/O.EXP.KLSX.SV.W.0310.000000T0000Z-060531T0015Z/
FAYETTE IL-
715 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR FAYETTE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER
APPEARED TO BE SEVERE.
AT 715 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR VANDALIA TO WRIGHTS
CORNER. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH AND ARE
CAPABLE OF VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS TO 35 MPH...OCCASIONAL
LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY HAIL TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER.
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS IMMEDIATELY.
LAT...LON 3907 8925 3879 8926 3897 8882 3921 8882
3922 8890
$$
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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.