Alert archive / Illinois / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2000, 4:30 AM CDT for Effingham County, Illinois. It was in force for 90 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
- Jul 5, 2000, 4:30 AM CDT (09:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2000, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Effingham County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 2311 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KILX 050931 FFWILX ILC049-051100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 430 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 * UNTIL 600 AM CDT * AT 425 AM CDT...EFFINGHAM COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTS THAT MOST ROADWAYS ACROSS THE COUNTY ARE UNDER WATER FROM HEAVY RAINFALL OVERNIGHT. SEVERAL RESIDENCES IN DIETRICH WERE EVACUATED DUE TO RISING WATERS. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES BETWEEN FOUR AND FIVE INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS FALLEN ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN EFFINGHAM COUNTY. * MUCH OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS SHIFTED SOUTH AND WEAKENED. HOWEVER...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS EASTERN EFFINGHAM COUNTY EARLY THIS MORNING. UP TO ONE INCH OF ADDITIONAL RAIN MAY FALL ACROSS THE COUNTY THROUGH 530 AM. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL COMBINED WITH EARLIER RAINS WILL CONTINUE THE THREAT OF 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 RO8ADWAYS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. REPORT FLASH FLOODING TO 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 5, 2:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham, Richland | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 7:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Effingham, Jasper | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 8:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland, Shelby | 4 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.