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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 2001, 10:36 AM CDT for Bureau County, Henry County, Putnam County, 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2001, 10:36 AM CDT (15:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2001, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bureau County, IL, Henry County, IL, Putnam County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 440 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 408 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 569 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KDVN 051546 CCA FFWMLI ILC011-073-155-051930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTION TO 4TH BULLET ITEM FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 1036 AM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... PUTNAM COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS BUREAU COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS HENRY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS * UNTIL 230 PM CDT * AT 1036 AM CDT...THE HENRY COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED FLASH FLOODING IN SOUTHERN HENRY COUNTY. THE EDWARDS RIVER BRIDGE AT THE ANDOVER-WOODHULL BLACKTOP WAS NEARLY IMPASSABLE. ALSO...WATER WAS ON U.S. ROUTE 150 AT OPHIEM. ALSO...TWO FEET WAS ON A COUNTY ROAD NEAR ANDOVER. FINALLY...COUNTY ROAD 600E AT EDWARDS RIVER ROAD WAS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE OVER BUREAU AND PUTNAM COUNTIES AS WELL. * SOME TOWNS AFFECTED INCLUDE...GALVA...HENNEPIN...KEWANEE...AND WOODHULL. THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE WARNED AREA IS OF MOST CONCERN. * THE GROUND HAS ALREADY BEEN SATURATED BY RECENT RAINFALL... ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN HAS RESULTED IN EXCESSIVE RUNOFF...LEADING TO THE LIKELIHOOD OF FLASH FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA BE AWARE OF FLOOD PRONE AREAS. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHEdR GROUND. PLEASE GIVE YOUR REPORTS OF FLOODING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES. LAT...LON 4116 9044 4112 8916 4144 8918 4145 9043 JAZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 2:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henry, Mercer | 47 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.