Alert archive / Illinois / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Lincoln, IL
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.
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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.
- 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
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 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Shelby | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 7:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan | 55 min |
| Jun 5, 10:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Shelby | 6 hr |
| Jun 6, 12:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Morgan, Sangamon, Scott | 6 hr |
| Jun 6, 3:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon, Moultrie, Shelby | 4 hr |
| Jun 6, 6:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Morgan, Sangamon, Scott | 3 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.