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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 2023, 1:37 AM CDT for Edgar County, Illinois. It was in force for 8 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
- Jul 24, 2023, 1:37 AM CDT (06:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2023, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Edgar County, IL
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 2013 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1419 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 8.3
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 Jul 23, 11:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 11:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lincoln IL 307 PM CDT Sun Jul 23 2023 ILZ027>029-036-037-040-041-047>051-242015- Knox-Stark-Peoria-Fulton-Tazewell-Schuyler-Mason-Cass-Menard-Scott- Morgan-Sangamon- 307 PM CDT Sun Jul 23 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Illinois and west central Illinois. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Isolated thunderstorms are possible this afternoon and evening. Any storms that do develop are not expected to be severe. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. There will be occasional chances for showers and thunderstorms Monday night through Saturday (generally around 20 percent) with the best chance Monday night (around 40 percent). A few stronger storms may be capable of producing locally damaging winds and isolated large hail Monday night. Thunderstorms are not expected to be severe Tuesday through Thursday, but it is too early to determine the threat for severe weather Friday and Saturday. Heat index values look to approach 100 degrees each afternoon Wednesday through Saturday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated tonight. ILZ030-031-038-042>046-052>057-061>063-242015- Marshall-Woodford-McLean-Logan-De Witt-Piatt-Champaign-Vermilion- Christian-Macon-Moultrie-Douglas-Coles-Edgar-Shelby-Cumberland-Clark- 307 PM CDT Sun Jul 23 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Illinois and east central Illinois. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Isolated thunderstorms are possible this afternoon and evening. Any storms that do develop are not expected to be severe. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. There will be occasional chances for showers and thunderstorms Monday night through Saturday (generally around 20 percent) with the best chance Monday night (around 30 percent). These storms are not expected to be severe through Thursday, but it is too early to determine the threat for severe weather Friday and Saturday. Heat index values look to approach 100 degrees each afternoon Wednesday through Saturday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated tonight. ILZ066>068-071>073-242015- Effingham-Jasper-Crawford-Clay-Richland-Lawrence- 307 PM CDT Sun Jul 23 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for southeast Illinois. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Isolated thunderstorms are possible this evening and tonight. Any storms that do develop are not expected to be severe. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. There will be occasional chances for showers and thunderstorms Monday through Saturday (generally around 20 percent) with the best chance Monday night (around 30 percent). An isolated severe storm or two is possible Monday afternoon and evening with damaging wind gusts and quarter size hail the primary hazards. Otherwise, storms are not expected to be severe Monday night through Thursday, but it is too early to determine the threat for severe weather Friday and Saturday. Heat index values look to approach 100 degrees each afternoon Wednesday through Saturday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated tonight. Deubelbeiss
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 23, 8:09 PM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 41 min |
| Jul 23, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon, Sangamon | 26 min |
| Jul 23, 8:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Macon | 36 min |
| Jul 23, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon, Moultrie | 48 min |
| Jul 24, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark | 21 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.