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Flash Flood Warning 46, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at May 12, 2002, 7:12 AM CDT for Clark County, Cumberland County, Illinois. It was in force for 7 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 12, 2002, 7:12 AM CDT (12:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2002, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clark County, IL, Cumberland County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 829 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KILX 121212 FFWSPI ILC023-035-121900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 709 AM CDT SUN MAY 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS CLARK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 2 PM CDT * AT 707 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING INTO THE AREA. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF FLOODING RAINS AND RAINFALL RATES EXCEEDING AN INCH AN HOUR. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA FOR MUCH OF THE MORNING. TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS COULD EXCEED 3 INCHES BY NOON. 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. CROSSING A FLOODED ROADWAY COULD BE DEADLY. 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 3941 8756 3918 8794 3919 8844 3936 8841 FRIEDERS NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 38 min |
| May 11, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Stark | 58 min |
| May 12, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 47 min |
| May 12, 2:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 6 hr |
| May 12, 2:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Cass, Mason, Menard | 6 hr |
| May 12, 3:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Christian, Logan, Macon, Morgan, Sangamon, Scott | 6 hr |
| May 12, 5:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas, Macon, Moultrie, Piatt, Shelby | 6 hr |
| May 12, 5:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas, Moultrie, Piatt, Shelby | 6 hr |
| May 12, 6:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Edgar | 5 hr |
| May 12, 10:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Champaign, Vermilion | 6 hr |
| May 12, 12:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Clay, Crawford, Effingham, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland | 6 hr |
| May 12, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Effingham, Jasper | 39 min |
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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.