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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 12
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 20, 2014, 3:50 PM CST for 17 counties in Illinois. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 2014, 3:50 PM CST (21:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 2014, 4:46 PM CST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Richland County, IL, Shelby County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 4:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Coles, Douglas, Macon, Moultrie, Piatt and 1 more | 59 min |
| Feb 20, 4:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan, Macon, Sangamon | 22 min |
| Feb 20, 4:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian, Shelby | 34 min |
| Feb 20, 4:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas, Moultrie, Piatt, Shelby | 35 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 582 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 576 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 11:34 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin and 3 more | 116 min |
| Feb 20, 1:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Christian, Clinton and 15 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 20, 1:45 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 20, 2:23 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 20, 3:23 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 25 more | 97 min |
| Feb 20, 4:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 12 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 20, 5:29 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 14 more | 46 min |
| Feb 20, 5:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clark, Clinton and 36 more | 5 hr |
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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.