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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 4, 2008, 9:27 AM CST for Stark County, Illinois. It was in force for 14 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
- Feb 4, 2008, 9:27 AM CST (15:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 4, 2008, 9:41 AM CST
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Stark County, IL
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:29 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 422 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 328 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 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 KILX 041527 SVRILX ILC175-041600- /O.NEW.KILX.SV.W.0021.080204T1527Z-080204T1600Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 927 AM CST MON FEB 4 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN STARK COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS... * UNTIL 1000 AM CST. * AT 927 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES WEST OF WYOMING...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KEWANEE...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BRADFORD... WYOMING... ANOTHER LOCATION IN THIS WARNING IS...CASTLETON. IF YOU IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING...BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO YOUR LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGER...OR THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4122 8965 4108 8965 4102 8979 4112 8986 TIME...MOT...LOC 1527Z 238DEG 40KT 4109 8977 $$ AUTEN
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KILX 041541 SVSILX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 942 AM CST MON FEB 4 2008 ILC175-041552- /O.CAN.KILX.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-080204T1600Z/ STARK- 942 AM CST MON FEB 4 2008 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN STARK COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 940 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM THAT HAD PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 4122 8965 4108 8965 4102 8979 4112 8986 TIME...MOT...LOC 1542Z 238DEG 40KT 4117 8958 $$ AUTEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 4, 2:33 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | ILX | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles and 29 more | 33 hr |
| Feb 4, 7:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox, Stark | 29 min |
| Feb 4, 8:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 47 min |
| Feb 4, 3:09 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ILX | Cass, Fulton, Knox, Marshall, Mason, Peoria and 4 more | 12 hr |
| Feb 4, 4:08 PM CST | Flood Watch | ILX | Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 19 more | 35 hr |
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.