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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 2001, 12:55 AM CDT for Crawford County, Jasper 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
- Jul 9, 2001, 12:55 AM CDT (05:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2001, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, IL, Jasper County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 623 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KILX 090558 FFWILX ILC033-079-091000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 1255 AM CDT MON JUL 9 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS * UNTIL 500 AM CDT * AT 1255 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN NORTH OF A NEWTON TO ROBINSON LINE. TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN ESTIMATED SINCE 1200 AM. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS CRAWFORD AND JASPER COUNTIES THROUGH 300 AM. TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY RANGE FROM TWO TO FIVE INCHES BY 300 AM. 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. 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 WE/ATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS. NNNN $$ EH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 11:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Edgar | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 11:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Clark | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 12:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Coles | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Clark, Coles, Douglas, Edgar | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 3:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Lawrence | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 4:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Crawford, Jasper | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 5:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Effingham | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 6:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Clark | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 6:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Clay | 4 hr |
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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.