Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Lincoln, IL

Issued

Jun 13, 1996, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)

Expired

Jun 13, 1996, 6:15 PM CDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Lincoln, IL

Area

Whole counties

County Marshall County, IL

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

000 
TTAA00 KSPI 132013
FFWSPI
ILC123-132315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
312 PM CDT THU JUN 13 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN IL HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS

   ...MARSHALL COUNTY
 
STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING VERY SLOWLY ACROSS
MARSHALL COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON. RAINFALL RATES OF OVER 2 INCHES PER
HOUR ARE POSSIBLE. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE COUNTY
LATER THIS AFTERNOON. FLOODING OF STREETS AND CREEKS WILL BECOME
LIKELY.

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. FLOODING IS IMMINENT. DO NOT
DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER CjOVERS THE ROAD...AS THE DEPTH MAY BE
TOO MUCH FOR YOUR VEHICLE TO HANDLE.

$$
GEELHART

NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 13, 2:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
200 PM CDT THU JUN 13 1996

OUTFLOW BOUNDARY LEFT OVER FROM EARLIER CONVECTION AND WK S/WV MOVING
ACROSS NRN SECT OF IL ATTM HAS LEAD TO RAPID DVPMNT OF TRWS ACROSS NRN
PARTS OF CWA.  SFC DWPTS IN THE UPR 60S AND GOOD MOIST CONV ALONG THE
BOUND HAS AIDED IN DVPMNT.  GOOD MOIST ALONG THIS BOUND SHOULD KEEP
TRWS GOING THIS EVE.  NOT MUCH IN THE WAY OF DIRECTIONAL SHEAR SO MORE
OF A PULSE OR, MULTICELL TYPE STORM.  GOT TO GO FOR NOW...THINGS GETTING
INTERESTING.

PIA  61/88  +0
SPI  63/89  60
DEC  62/89  60
CMI  61/88  80
SEIL 62/90  30

KETCHAM

In the hours before

ILZ027>031-036>038-040>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-141100-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN ILLINOIS
1100 AM CDT THU JUN 13 1996

SYNOPSIS:  A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH ILLINOIS LATE THIS
AFTERNOON.  THE COLD FRONT WILL HELP TRIGGER SOME THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS
NORTHERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE SEVERE
WEATHER...SO SPOTTER ACTIVATION LMAY BE REQUIRED IN THESE AREAS LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING .

KETCHAM

Flash Flood Warnings in Illinois, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.