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Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at May 27, 2002, 5:21 PM CDT for Christian County, Shelby 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
- May 27, 2002, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2002, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Christian County, IL, Shelby County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 966 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KILX 272221 FFWSPI ILC021-173-280400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 518 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SHELBY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 515 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS CENTRAL CHRISTIAN COUNTY NEAR TAYLORVILLE. BETWEEN 1 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS HAS BEEN ESTIMATED SINCE 4 PM AROUND TAYLORVILLE. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS CENTRAL CHRISTIAN INTO CENTRAL SHELBY COUNTIES. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY RANGE FROM 1 TO 3 INCHES BY 7 PM. THESE RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING ESPECIALLY FROM TAYLORVILLE TO SHELBYVILLE. 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 3959 8878 3936 8878 3936 8927 3961 8951 KH NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan, Sangamon | 60 min |
| May 27, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 60 min |
| May 27, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian | 53 min |
| May 27, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Shelby | 61 min |
| May 27, 5:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 6 hr |
| May 27, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Moultrie | 63 min |
| May 27, 6:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Clark, Coles, Moultrie | 6 hr |
| May 27, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas | 56 min |
| May 27, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark | 53 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.