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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Lincoln, IL

April 19, 2002Vermilion County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Apr 19, 2002, 8:37 PM CDT for Vermilion County, Illinois. It was in force for 5 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, 8:37 PM CDT (01:37 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 2002, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Vermilion County, IL

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KILX 200137
FFWSPI
ILC183-200730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
834 PM CDT FRI APR 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 200 AM CDT

* AT 830 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER SOUTHWEST VERMILION COUNTY. TWO INCHES OF
  RAIN HAS BEEN ESTIMATED SINCE 6 PM.

* THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS
  SOUTHWEST VERMILION COUNTY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY RANGE
  FROM 2 TO 4 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 4020 8754 3991 8755 3989 8794 4020 8794

BARKER

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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, 7:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Champaign, Douglas	6 hr
Apr 19, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Douglas	55 min
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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.