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Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 12, 20026 counties in Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at May 12, 2002, 12:11 PM CDT for 6 counties in 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: May 12, 2002, 12:11 PM CDT (17:11 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Clay County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Richland County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KILX 121711
FFWSPI
ILC025-033-049-079-101-159-122300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
1210 PM CDT SUN MAY 12 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CRAWFORD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  CLAY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  EFFINGHAM COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  RICHLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS
  LAWRENCE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS
  JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT NOON CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY
  HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN SOUTH OF EFFINGHAM TO NEAR ROBINSON. 1 TO 
  2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN ESTIMATED SINCE 1100 AM.

* THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE
  WARNED AREAS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY RANGE FROM 1 TO 4 
  INCHES BY 200 PM. THESE RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLASH 
  FLOODING.

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 3903 8769 3875 8762 3872 8849 3911 8868

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, 7:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Clark, Cumberland	7 hr
May 12, 10:56 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	6 hr
May 12, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Effingham, Jasper	39 min

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.