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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 5, 2001Clay County, Lawrence County, Richland County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT for Clay County, Lawrence County, Richland County, Illinois. It was in force for 3 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: Jun 5, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2001, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Clay County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Richland County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 164 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -542 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 435 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 387 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 412 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KILX 052335
FFWILX
ILC025-101-159-060230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
630 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CLAY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  RICHLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS
  LAWRENCE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 627 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  HEAVY RAINS CONTINUING OVER RICHLAND...CLAY AND LAWRENCE COUNTIES.
  1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN ESTIMATED SINCE 530 PM.

  FLORA CITY ESDA ALSO REPORTED 3 INCHES OF WATER OVER ROUTE 150 AND
  STREET FLOODING IN FLORA.

* THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS
  RICHLAND AND LAWRENCE COUNTIES. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY RANGE
  FROM 1 TO 3 INCHES BY 730 PM. THESE RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY
  PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING.

EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING NEAR STREAMS...CREEKS AND
NEARBY FARMLAND. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS ON COUNTY ROADS AND IN LOW
LYING AREAS. NEVER CROSS AREAS IN WHICH WATER COVERS THE ROADS.

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 LAjW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY
TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
$$
KETCHAM

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 1:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Knox, Peoria, Stark	39 min
Jun 5, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Moultrie, Shelby	51 min
Jun 5, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Effingham	29 min
Jun 5, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles, Cumberland, Shelby	61 min
Jun 5, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Crawford, Jasper	47 min
Jun 5, 4:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Clark, Crawford, Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper	4 hr
Jun 5, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Richland	45 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Illinois, 2001 Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.