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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Apr 19, 2002, 7:55 PM CDT for Champaign County, Douglas 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 2002, 7:55 PM CDT (00:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2002, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Champaign County, IL, Douglas County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KILX 200055 FFWSPI ILC019-041-200700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 753 PM CDT FRI APR 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... DOUGLAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 200 AM CDT * AT 749 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAINS CONTINUING NEAR VILLA GROVE. THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN ESTIMATED SINCE 6 PM. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS EXTREME NORTHERN DOUGLAS AND SOUTHERN CHAMPAIGN COUNTIES. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY RANGE FROM 5 TO 6 INCHES BY 10 PM. 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. 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. LAT...LON 4006 8795 3978 8796 3978 8845 4006 8847 BARKER NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign | 56 min |
| Apr 19, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon | 65 min |
| Apr 19, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Piatt | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Menard, Sangamon | 66 min |
| Apr 19, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas | 55 min |
| Apr 19, 8:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 5 hr |
| Apr 19, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian | 62 min |
| Apr 19, 8:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Piatt | 5 hr |
| Apr 19, 8:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Piatt, Sangamon | 5 hr |
| Apr 19, 8:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Piatt | 5 hr |
| Apr 19, 8:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 5 hr |
| Apr 19, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Macon, Sangamon | 52 min |
| Apr 19, 9:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon | 5 hr |
| Apr 19, 9:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan | 4 hr |
| Apr 20, 2:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas | 6 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.