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Flash Flood Warning 58, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 11, 2002Fulton County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 2002, 12:24 PM CDT for Fulton 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: Jun 11, 2002, 12:24 PM CDT (17:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2002, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Fulton County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 1367 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 650 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 157 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 111724
FFWSPI
ILC057-112315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
1220 PM CDT TUE JUN 11 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  FULTON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 1218 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
HEAVY RAINS CONTINUING OVER FULTON COUNTY...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND NORTH 
OF A MARIETTA TO ST. DAVID LINE. DOPPLER RAINFALL ESTIMATES SINCE 
600 AM THIS MORNING INDICATE FROM 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN 
OVER THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY. MEANWHILE...ADDITIONAL HEAVY 
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS THE COUNTY FROM THE WEST AND HAVE 
THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING ANOTHER 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN ACROSS THE 
ENTIRE COUNTY BY LATE AFTERNOON WHICH WILL CAUSE 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 4071 9003 4049 8993 4023 9021 4024 9045
          4070 9046

SMITH
NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 2:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Schuyler	6 hr
Jun 11, 2:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Mason	6 hr
Jun 11, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cass, Morgan, Schuyler, Scott	60 min
Jun 11, 3:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Morgan	38 min
Jun 11, 3:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Morgan, Sangamon	6 hr
Jun 11, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Menard, Sangamon	67 min
Jun 11, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign	41 min
Jun 11, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, Shelby	59 min
Jun 11, 5:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Shelby	28 min
Jun 11, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cumberland	64 min
Jun 11, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Effingham	63 min
Jun 11, 5:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Effingham	46 min
Jun 11, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles	40 min
Jun 11, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Jasper	65 min
Jun 11, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Edgar	55 min

Nearby

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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.