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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 22, 2001, 9:21 PM 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
- Aug 22, 2001, 9:21 PM CDT (02:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2001, 3:00 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 02:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 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
- 494 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 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 230221 FFWSPI FFWSPI ILC169-230800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 921 PM CDT WED AUG 22 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SCHUYLER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 300 AM CDT * AT 920 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAINS CONTINUING ACROSS SCHUYLER COUNTY...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS NORTH OF A CAMDEN TO RUSHVILLE LINE. RADAR HAS ESTIMATED AROUND 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED THIS EVENING. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CONTINUE ACROSS SCHUYLER COUNTY THROUGH AT LEAST MIDNIGHT AS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PERSIST. RAINFALL RATES WILL LIKELY EXCEED AN INCH AN HOUR DURING THIS PERIOD. THESE RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. 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 WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS. $$ FRIEDERS NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Mason, Menard | 67 min |
| Aug 22, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan | 63 min |
| Aug 22, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, McLean | 65 min |
| Aug 22, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Piatt | 38 min |
| Aug 22, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 53 min |
| Aug 22, 10:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Cass | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 2:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 7 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.