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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Lincoln, IL

March 14, 2024Edgar County, Vermilion County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2024, 9:27 AM CDT for Edgar County, Vermilion County, Illinois. It was in force for 18 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: Mar 14, 2024, 9:27 AM CDT (14:27 UTC)
Expired: Mar 14, 2024, 9:45 AM CDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Edgar County, IL, Vermilion County, IL

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 14, 3:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
Mar 14, 4:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 461 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 856 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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 Mar 14, 6:51 AM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 6:51 AM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 14, 6:09 AM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 14, 6:36 AM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 14, 6:49 AM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 14, 8:05 AM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 14, 8:36 AM CDT, 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 14, 9:14 AM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 14, 9:18 AM CDT, 9 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
Mar 13, 7:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Cumberland	25 min
Mar 13, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles, Cumberland	35 min
Mar 13, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Clark, Coles, Cumberland	38 min
Mar 13, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Edgar	40 min
Mar 13, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Clark, Edgar	45 min
Mar 13, 10:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Logan	31 min
Mar 13, 11:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Fulton	30 min
Mar 13, 11:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	DeWitt, Logan, Tazewell	24 min
Mar 13, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Knox	6 min
Mar 14, 12:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Knox	28 min
Mar 14, 12:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	DeWitt, Knox, McLean, Peoria, Tazewell	23 min
Mar 14, 12:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Knox, Peoria	34 min
Mar 14, 12:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Knox	36 min
Mar 14, 12:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Marshall, Woodford	24 min
Mar 14, 2:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Knox	44 min
Mar 14, 4:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton, Knox	37 min
Mar 14, 4:52 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Knox	23 min
Mar 14, 5:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Knox, Peoria, Stark	10 min
Mar 14, 5:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Logan, Mason, Tazewell	23 min
Mar 14, 5:30 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Tazewell	15 min
Mar 14, 6:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	McLean	26 min
Mar 14, 7:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	McLean	26 min
Mar 14, 8:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, Macon, Sangamon, Shelby	47 min
Mar 14, 8:23 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Christian	24 min
Mar 14, 8:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Moultrie, Shelby	49 min
Mar 14, 8:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Macon, Moultrie, Piatt	27 min
Mar 14, 9:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Crawford	32 min
Mar 14, 11:13 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ILX	Cass, Fulton, Mason	12 hr
Mar 14, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Morgan, Scott	46 min
Mar 14, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Morgan, Sangamon, Scott	56 min
Mar 14, 4:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Morgan, Sangamon	23 min
Mar 14, 4:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Christian, Sangamon	36 min
Mar 14, 5:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Christian, Shelby	35 min
Mar 14, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles, Cumberland, Moultrie, Shelby	42 min
Mar 14, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, Cumberland, Effingham, Shelby	39 min
Mar 14, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles, Edgar	46 min
Mar 14, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Effingham, Jasper, Richland	41 min
Mar 14, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper, Shelby	28 min
Mar 14, 6:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Coles, Cumberland, Shelby	12 min
Mar 14, 6:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Clay, Jasper	38 min
Mar 14, 6:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Coles, Moultrie, Shelby	3 hr
Mar 14, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Edgar	29 min
Mar 14, 6:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Clay, Effingham, Jasper, Richland	31 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.