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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 166
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 21, 2014, 2:35 PM CDT for 16 counties in Illinois. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 21, 2014, 2:35 PM CDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2014, 7:33 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Champaign County, IL, Clark County, IL, Coles County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, McLean County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Woodford County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, McLean, Piatt | 57 min |
| May 21, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 47 min |
| May 21, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas, Piatt | 54 min |
| May 21, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign | 63 min |
| May 21, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Coles, Douglas, Edgar | 47 min |
| May 21, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Edgar, Vermilion | 44 min |
| May 21, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 64 min |
| May 21, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas, Edgar | 64 min |
| May 21, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Piatt | 66 min |
| May 21, 5:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Champaign, Piatt | 6 hr |
| May 21, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign | 48 min |
| May 21, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas, Edgar, Vermilion | 62 min |
| May 21, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Vermilion | 65 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 806 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 8:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall and 1 more | 84 min |
| May 20, 9:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, DeKalb, DuPage, Jo Daviess, Kane, Kendall and 4 more | 94 min |
| May 20, 11:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cook, Lake | 97 min |
| May 21, 1:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy and 17 more | 93 min |
| May 21, 11:54 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Iroquois, Vermilion | 3 hr |
| May 21, 1:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 27 more | 2 hr |
| May 21, 3:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 44 more | 2 hr |
| May 21, 5:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Edwards, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Wabash, Washington and 2 more | 87 min |
| May 21, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jefferson and 7 more | 13 hr |
| May 21, 6:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Douglas, Edgar, Vermilion | 85 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.