Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Lincoln, IL

Issued

Jun 13, 1996, 4:43 PM CDT (21:43 UTC)

Expired

Jun 13, 1996, 5:30 PM CDT

In force

47 min

Issued by

NWS Lincoln, IL

Area

Whole counties

County Knox County, IL

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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TTAA00 KSPI 132147
FFWSPI
ILC095-140045-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
443 PM CDT THU JUN 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING UNTIL 530 PM CDT
AND A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
 
   ...SOUTHERN KNOX COUNTY
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS KNOX COUNTY AT 445 PM.
DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED STORMS MAINLY SOUTH OF I-74 FROM KNOXVILLE TO THE
PEORIA COUNTY BORDER. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.
 
THESE STORMS PRODUCED GOLFBALL-SIZE HAIL AT 435 PM AT THE SPOON RIVER
I-74 REST AREA IN SOUTHEAST KNOX COUNTY...AS WELL AS IN MAQUON.
TREES WERE ALSO DOWNED IN DAHINDA AROUND 430 PM.
 
FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW-LYING AREAS IS TAKING PLACE IN SOUTHERN PARTS
OF KNOX COUNTY DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS. FLOODING WILL
BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD AS THE HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES.
 
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.
$$
 
GEELHART
 
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NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 13, 2:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 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

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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.