Alert archive / Illinois / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Feb 9, 2001, 12:00 PM CST for Cumberland 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 9, 2001, 12:00 PM CST (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 9, 2001, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cumberland County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 681 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 455 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 527 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 091804 FFWSPI ILC035-092130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 1200 PM CST FRI FEB 9 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 330 PM CST * AT 1200 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN FROM NEOGA TO TOLEDO. ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN ESTIMATED SINCE 1100 AM. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS NEOGA TO TOLEDO. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY RANGE FROM ONE TO THREE INCHES BY 200 PM. 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. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS IN WHICH WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. IT ONLY TAKES A FOOT OR TWO OF WATER TO WASH MOST VEHICLES AWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATERS SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. 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. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9, 8:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon, Sangamon | 61 min |
| Feb 9, 8:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan | 55 min |
| Feb 9, 8:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 65 min |
| Feb 9, 9:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Moultrie, Shelby | 61 min |
| Feb 9, 9:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Piatt | 61 min |
| Feb 9, 11:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cumberland | 60 min |
| Feb 9, 12:59 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Effingham | 4 hr |
| Feb 9, 1:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Clark, Coles, Edgar | 4 hr |
| Feb 9, 3:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Cumberland | 2 hr |
Nearby
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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.