Lightning strikes took out virturlly all communications at the Police and Sheriff Department in Greenville, IL.
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Lightning strikes took out virturlly all communications at the Police and Sheriff Department in Greenville, IL.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 22, 5:28 PM CST, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 628 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007 .DISCUSSION... LATEST SURFACE ANALYS AT 20 UTC SHOWS WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARN EXTENDING FROM SURFACE LOW OVER EASTERN NEBRASKA THROUGH CENTRAL IOWA AND SOUTHEAST TO CENTRAL IL. POOLING OF 70 DEWPOINTS NOTED ALONG AND JUST SOUTH OF WARM FRONTAL BNDRY. LATEST CONVECTIVE TRENDS SHOW SMALL COMPLEX OF MULTICELL STORMS OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MO ATTM. THIS SMALL COMPLEX APPEARS TO MAINTAIN ITSELF THUS WILL BRING IN HIGHER POPS OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND S CNTRL MO THIS EVENING. WV IMAGERY SHOWED MCV MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL IOWA ATTM. CONVECTIVE COMPLEX APPEARING TO HOLD TIGHT WITH THIS FREATURE. ARW WRF SHOWED THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX DEVELOPING WITH THIS FEATURE BY MID AFTERNOON WI ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT ALONG WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY FROM SOUTHEAST IOWA THROUGH CENTRAL ILLINOIS EARLY THIS EVENING NMM WRF SHOWED MUCH MORE CONVECTION OVR NRN MO AT ABOUT THIS SAME IME. THUS LEANING TOWARDS THE ARW WRF IN THE SHORT TERM THROUGH THIS EVENING. WILL CONTINUE WI FAIRLY HIGH POPS OVER NRN AND ERN PARTS OF THE CWA ON SATURDAY. THEN TRANISITONING THE AXIS OF HIGHEST POPS OVER SOUTHWEST IL THROUGH EASTERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI. BOTH NAM AND GFS HINTS OF A WEAK IMPULSE RIDING SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE MID- MISSISSIPPI VALLEY REGION. THIS FEATURE COMBINED WITH LOW-LEVEL MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR WILL AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY MID TO LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THE NIGHT. ON SUNDAY THE BEST CHC FOR POPS WILL OCCUR OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF CWA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 0.25 TO 0.40 MAY OCCUR OVER THE FAR SOUTHERN PART OF THE CWA. MONDAY LOOKS MORE QUITE AS UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BUILDS IN FROM THE WEST. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO RISE INTO THE LOW AND POSSIBLY THE MID 90S IN SOME AREAS. WK IMPULSE FROM THE SUBTROPIC PLUME WILL MOVE NORTHEASTWARD OVER THE REGION LATE WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. BELIEVE THE BEST CHC FOR PCPN WILL OCCUR ON THURSDAY. RP && .AVIATION... FOR THE 00Z TAFS... CONVECTION CONTINUES TO DEVELOP ALONG STATIONARY/WARM FRONT THAT IS NOW POSITIONED JUST EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. BELIEVE THIS ACTIVITY WILL STAY CLEAR OF TAF SITES THIS EVENING...WITH BETTER CHANCE OF THUNDER ARRIVING LATER WITH DEVELOPING MCS ACROSS SOUTHERN IOWA. HAVE TRIED TO TIME THE COMPLEX INTO TAF LOCATIONS OVERNIGHT WITH GREATEST IMPACTS BEING AT KUIN WHERE SEVERE POTENTIAL SEEMS GREATEST. CVKING && .LSX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. IL...NONE. && WFO LSX
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 949 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007 ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027- 034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-231215- GREENE IL-MACOUPIN IL-MONTGOMERY IL-BOND IL-FAYETTE IL-CLINTON IL- MARION IL-WASHINGTON IL-RANDOLPH IL-ADAMS IL-BROWN IL-PIKE IL- CALHOUN IL-JERSEY IL-MADISON IL-ST. CLAIR IL-MONROE IL-KNOX-LEWIS- SHELBY-MARION-MONROE-RALLS-PIKE-BOONE-AUDRAIN-MONITEAU-COLE-OSAGE- CALLAWAY-MONTGOMERY-LINCOLN-GASCONADE-WARREN-ST. CHARLES-FRANKLIN- ST. LOUIS-ST. LOUIS CITY-JEFFERSON-CRAWFORD-WASHINGTON- ST. FRANCOIS-STE. GENEVIEVE-IRON-MADISON-REYNOLDS- 949 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI AS WELL AS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHERN MISSOURI THROUGH WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS. AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM WITH DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE ALONG WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. THE THUNDERSTORM CHANCES AND SEVERE WEATHER PROBABILITY DECREASE SOUTHWARD ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST THROUGH SATURDAY...AND INTO SUNDAY...AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WAVERS ACROSS THE MIDDLE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE STRONG TO SEVERE AND MAY ALSO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE WEDNESDAY AND INTO THURSDAY OF THE UPCOMING WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ASSISTANCE MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE)... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/LSX/?N=HWO1 GLASS
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 120 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:01 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A lightning strike around 10:00 pm CDT took our virtually all communications at the Police and Sheriff Department in Greenville, IL. 911 service was out for several hours.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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