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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 6, 2002Coles County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at May 6, 2002, 7:18 AM CDT for Coles 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 6, 2002, 7:18 AM CDT (12:18 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2002, 11:15 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Coles County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 445 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 346 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 454 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 061218
FFWSPI
ILC029-061615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
715 AM CDT MON MAY 6 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  COLES COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 1115 AM CDT

* AT 709 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN 15 MILES WEST OF CHARLESTON. 1 TO 2
  INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN ESTIMATED SINCE 600 AM. 

* THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS COLES
  COUNTY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY RANGE FROM 2 TO 4 INCHES BY 
  900 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.

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 NEAREST LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY
TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

LAT...LON 3960 8804 3941 8807 3943 8841 3962 8844

EH
NNNN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 5:11 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Shelby	4 hr
May 6, 9:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Morgan, Sangamon, Scott	6 hr
May 6, 9:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Scott	42 min
May 6, 10:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Christian, Shelby	6 hr
May 6, 11:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Crawford, Effingham, Jasper	6 hr
May 6, 2:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Clay, Lawrence, Richland	6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Illinois, 2002 Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.