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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Jul 11, 2000, 4:30 AM CDT for Crawford County, Cumberland County, Jasper County, Illinois. It was in force for 6 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, 4:30 AM CDT (09:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2000, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Jasper County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 126 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 110932 FFWILX ILC033-035-079-111530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 430 AM CDT TUE JUL 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS * UNTIL 1030 AM CDT * AT 420 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. 2 TO 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD BEEN ESTIMATED TO HAVE FALLEN OVER EASTERN PORTIONS OF CRAWFORD COUNTY SINCE JUST AFTER 10 PM. UP TO 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY AS WELL. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS PORTIONS OF CUMBERLAND AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES. JASPER COUNTY WILL SEE RAPIDLY DEVELOPMENT EARLY THIS MORNING WITH UP TO 2 INCHES POSSIBLE WITHIN THE NEXT TWO HOURS. RAINFALL RATES WILL LIKELY RANGE FROM ONE TO 1.25 INCHES AN HOUR WITH TOTAL RAINFALL EXCEEDING OVER 2 INCHES IN THE NEXT TWO TO THREE HOURS. THESE RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG CREEKS AND STREAMS ARE ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE TO THE EFFECTS OF FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED AREAS BY FOOT OR AUTOMOBILE. 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. $$ AUTEN 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, 2:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Morgan, Sangamon | 5 hr |
| Jul 11, 3:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Clark, Coles | 5 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.