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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 29, 2023Clay County, Richland County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2023, 6:24 PM CDT for Clay County, Richland County, Illinois. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 29, 2023, 6:24 PM CDT (23:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2023, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Clay County, IL, Richland County, IL

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1628 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -244 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 811 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 380 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 354 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 11.6

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 29, 6:22 PM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 6:22 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 29, 3:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 29, 5:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 29, 5:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 29, 5:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 29, 5:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 29, 5:49 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 29, 5:52 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 2:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Shelby	42 min
Jun 29, 3:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Coles	32 min
Jun 29, 3:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Tazewell	28 min
Jun 29, 3:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Tazewell	46 min
Jun 29, 4:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cumberland	39 min
Jun 29, 4:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	McLean, Tazewell	46 min
Jun 29, 4:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	McLean, Woodford	64 min
Jun 29, 4:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Edgar	30 min
Jun 29, 5:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence	67 min
Jun 29, 5:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, DeWitt, McLean, Piatt	50 min
Jun 29, 5:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Macon, Piatt	31 min
Jun 29, 6:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Crawford, Lawrence	37 min
Jun 29, 6:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Edgar	33 min
Jun 29, 6:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, McLean, Piatt	29 min
Jun 29, 6:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Douglas, Piatt	32 min
Jun 29, 6:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Edgar	28 min
Jun 29, 6:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Champaign, Clark, Coles, Douglas, Edgar, Vermilion	37 min
Jun 29, 7:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Edgar	35 min
Jun 29, 7:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Lawrence, Richland	27 min
Jun 29, 8:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Edgar	14 min
Jun 29, 8:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Menard, Sangamon	15 min
Jun 29, 8:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Douglas	21 min
Jun 29, 8:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Macon	35 min
Jun 29, 9:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Cumberland	31 min
Jun 29, 9:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Crawford	27 min
Jun 29, 9:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Clark	24 min
Jun 29, 9:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Coles	23 min
Jun 29, 10:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Crawford	26 min
Jun 29, 10:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Clark	15 min
Jun 29, 10:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Clark	16 min
Jun 29, 10:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton, Schuyler	32 min
Jun 29, 11:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ILX	Fulton, Knox	50 min
Jun 29, 11:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Cass, Fulton, Mason, Menard, Morgan, Sangamon and 2 more	46 min
Jun 29, 11:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Fulton, Knox, Mason, Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford	44 min
Jun 29, 12:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Christian, DeWitt, Logan, Macon, Mason, Menard and 3 more	50 min
Jun 29, 12:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Sangamon	18 min
Jun 29, 12:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Logan, Sangamon	13 min
Jun 29, 12:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Christian, Sangamon	26 min
Jun 29, 12:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	DeWitt, Logan, McLean, Marshall, Peoria, Tazewell and 1 more	51 min
Jun 29, 12:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Christian	16 min
Jun 29, 12:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Logan, McLean	26 min
Jun 29, 12:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	McLean	24 min
Jun 29, 12:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Christian, Shelby	30 min
Jun 29, 12:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ILX	Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, DeWitt and 10 more	39 min
Jun 29, 1:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper, Richland, Shelby	42 min
Jun 29, 1:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Champaign, McLean	39 min
Jun 29, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ILX	Champaign, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar and 1 more	48 min
Jun 29, 1:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILX	McLean	93 min
Jun 29, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Clay, Crawford, Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper and 2 more	45 min
Jun 29, 2:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland	37 min
Jun 29, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Lawrence, Richland	40 min

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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.