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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Lincoln, IL

February 9, 2001Effingham County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Feb 9, 2001, 12:59 PM CST for Effingham 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, 12:59 PM CST (18:59 UTC)
Expired: Feb 9, 2001, 5:00 PM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties

County Effingham County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KILX 091900
FFWSPI
ILC049-092300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
1259 PM CST FRI FEB 9 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EFFINGHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 500 PM CST

* AT 1259 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 
  INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN NEAR EFFINGHAM. ONE TO TWO
  INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN ESTIMATED SINCE 1000 AM.

* EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS EFFINGHAM. RAINFALL
  AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY RANGE FROM ONE TO THREE INCHES BY 300 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 NEARESNT LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY
TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS.


EH
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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, 12:00 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Cumberland	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

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.