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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Jul 11, 2000, 2:06 AM CDT for Morgan County, Sangamon County, Illinois. It was in force for 5 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 11, 2000, 2:06 AM CDT (07:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2000, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Morgan County, IL, Sangamon County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:09 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 3024 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 959 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KILX 110709 COR FFWSPI ILC137-167-111200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING ...CORRECT EXPIRATION TIME... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 208 AM CDT TUE JUL 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SANGAMON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS MORGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 700 AM CDT * AT 203 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN ENTERING NORTH MORGAN AND SANGAMON COUNTIES. THIS AREA OF STORMS EXTENDED BACK INTO SOUTHEASTERN IOWA AND NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED COUNTIES THROUGH 530 AM. * RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY TOTAL UP TO 5 INCHES ACROSS PORTIONS OF SANGAMON AND MORGAN COUNTIES BY 530 AM. THESE RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT AT NIGHT TO JUDGE HOW MUCH WATER COVERS ROADWAYS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. REPORT FLASH FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL ESDA...OR THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS. PLAHMER NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 12:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Fulton, Mason | 5 hr |
| Jul 11, 12:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Logan | 5 hr |
| Jul 11, 1:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Cass, Menard, Schuyler | 5 hr |
| Jul 11, 1:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Douglas, Edgar | 5 hr |
| Jul 11, 3:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Clark, Coles | 5 hr |
| Jul 11, 4:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Crawford, Cumberland, Jasper | 6 hr |
| Jul 11, 8:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Clark, Coles | 2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.