Alert archive / Illinois / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2000, 8:57 PM CDT for Edgar County, Illinois. It was in force for 3 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2000, 8:57 PM CDT (01:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Edgar County, IL
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 317 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
- 201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1576 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 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 030200 FFWILX ILC045-030500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 857 PM CDT WED AUG 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN EDGAR COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT * AT 855 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS SOUTHERN EDGAR COUNTY. RADAR IS ESTIMATING RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 6 TO 8 INCHES IN THIS AREA SINCE 5 PM. * ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THIS AREA BEFORE TAPERING OFF BY 11 PM. THIS CONTINUED HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. THIS EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM. 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 ROADWAY4S. 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. FRIEDERS NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon | 57 min |
| Aug 2, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Moultrie, Piatt, Shelby | 59 min |
| Aug 2, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Cumberland, Douglas | 64 min |
| Aug 2, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Effingham | 64 min |
| Aug 2, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Jasper | 53 min |
| Aug 2, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign | 46 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Illinois, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000
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.