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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 6, 2001Schuyler County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 2001, 12:43 AM CDT for Schuyler County, Illinois. It was in force for 6 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 6, 2001, 12:43 AM CDT (05:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 2001, 7:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Lincoln, IL
Area
Whole counties

County Schuyler County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:43 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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 163 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 2001-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 2001-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 331 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
331 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
454 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KILX 060548
FFWILX
ILC169-061200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
1243 AM CDT WED JUN 6 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SCHUYLER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 700 AM CDT

* AT 1238 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN MISSOURI AND WESTERN
  ILLINOIS...THAT WILL MOVE ACROSS SCHUYLER COUNTY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS
  OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR ARE EXPECTED FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS
  MOVING THROUGH THE REGION.

* THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS
  SCHUYLER COUNTY THROUGH AT LEAST 5 AM.  THE HEAVY RAINFALL FROM THE
  STORMS WILL PRODUCE 4 INCHES OR MORE OF RAIN...PRODUCING DANGEROUS
  FLASH FLOODING IN THE COUNTY.

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.

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 ROADWAYS. 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 WEATHYER SERVICE. STAY
TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

$$
GOETSCH

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 7:27 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningILXShelby3 hr
Jun 5, 7:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningILXMorgan, Scott6 hr
Jun 5, 9:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMorgan55 min
Jun 5, 10:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningILXShelby6 hr
Jun 6, 12:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningILXMorgan, Sangamon, Scott6 hr
Jun 6, 3:32 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningILXChristian, Macon, Moultrie, Shelby4 hr
Jun 6, 6:53 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningILXMorgan, Sangamon, Scott3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Illinois, 2001Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.