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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Quad Cities, IA

July 24, 1993Mercer County, Illinois

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 1993, 4:44 AM CDT for Mercer County, Illinois. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 24, 1993, 4:44 AM CDT (09:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 1993, 8:15 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area
Whole counties

County Mercer County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 423 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1993-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1993-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1390 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 2:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDVNMercer2 hr

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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.