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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at May 16, 1995, 9:12 PM CDT for DeWitt County, Macon County, Illinois. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1995, 9:12 PM CDT (02:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1995, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties DeWitt County, IL, Macon County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 32 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
- 132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 658 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSPI 170213 FFWSPI ILC039-115-170715- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 912 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...DEWITT COUNTY...AND MACON COUNTY AT 910 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER MACON AND DEWITT COUNTIES THAT WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. MACON COUNTY AUTORITIES REPORTED THREE INCHES OF RAINFALL IN LESS THAN AN HOUR FELL OVER DECATUR AND FLOODING IS WIDE SPREAD OVER ALL OF THE COUNTY. DEWITT CONTY OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT ROUTE 10 HAS BEEN CLOSED NEAR CLINTON AND NUMEROUS STREETS ARE FLOODED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. FLOODING IS IMMINENT. DO NOT TRY TO WALK OR DRIVE ACROSS RAPIDLY MOVING WATER...AS YOU MAY BE SWEPT AWAY BY THE CURRENT. $$ PEARSON &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 16, 8:22 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
ILZ027>031-036-037-038-040-041-020230 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 820 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PUTNAM...KNOX...STARK...MARSHALL AND WOODFORD COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED FOR THESE COUNTIES. ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR PEORIA...FULTON...SCHUYLER...TAZEWELL...AND MASON COUNTIES... STUMETZ
Special weather statement, May 16, 9:11 PM CDT, 1 minute before
ILZ029-036-037-040-041-020230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 910 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM FOR PEORIA...FULTON...SCHUYLER...TAZEWELL...AND MASON COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED FOR THIS EVENING ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS. WATERHOUSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Fulton, Schuyler | 41 min |
| May 16, 7:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Cass, Menard | 5 hr |
| May 16, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Fulton | 44 min |
| May 16, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass | 38 min |
| May 16, 8:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Cass | 5 hr |
| May 16, 8:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Morgan | 4 hr |
| May 16, 8:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Logan, Menard, Sangamon | 5 hr |
| May 16, 11:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Fulton, Mason, Schuyler, Tazewell | 12 hr |
| May 16, 11:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Champaign | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.