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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2000, 8:57 AM CDT for 6 counties in Illinois. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2000, 8:57 AM CDT (13:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2000, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Richland County, IL, Shelby County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 874 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KILX 051358 FFWILX ILC049-079-025-159-101-173-051800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 857 AM CDT WED JUL 5 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EFFINGHAM COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS CLAY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS RICHLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS LAWRENCE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS SHELBY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 100 PM CDT * AT 850 AM CDT...EFFINGHAM...JASPER...AND SHELBY COUNTY SHERIFFS REPORTED ROADS IN THEIR COUNTIES WERE UNDER WATER IN NUMEROUS LOCATIONS. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED AND OBSERVERS CONFIRMED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 4 TO AS MUCH AS 6 INCHES OF RAIN IN SOME AREAS. * DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES MORE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH THE REGION THIS MORNING. 1 TO 2 INCHES OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE AREA WITH SOME OF THE STRONGEST STORMS. THIS NEW RAINFALL WILL TRIGGER FLASH FLOODING THROUGHOUT THE AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS THE NUMBER ONE WEATHER-RELATED KILLER. STAY OFF OF FLOODED ROADWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. M REPORT FLASH FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS. GOETSCH NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 2:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham, Richland | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 4:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Effingham | 90 min |
| Jul 5, 7:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Effingham, Jasper | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 61 min |
| Jul 5, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Mason, Morgan | 50 min |
| Jul 5, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 50 min |
| Jul 5, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Scott | 50 min |
| Jul 5, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Mason, Menard, Sangamon | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Shelby | 60 min |
| Jul 5, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Effingham | 54 min |
| Jul 5, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Jasper | 61 min |
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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.