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Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 2002, 3:33 PM CDT for Morgan County, Sangamon 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, 3:33 PM CDT (20:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2002, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Morgan County, IL, Sangamon County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KILX 112033 FFWSPI ILC137-167-120230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 331 PM CDT TUE JUN 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SANGAMON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS MORGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 327 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAINS CONTINUING FROM JUST EAST OF MEREDOSIA TO LOAMI. DOPPLER RAINFALL ESTIMATES IN THIS AREA INDICATE FROM 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 230 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH 430 PM...THEN LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH THE EVENING. 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 3989 8924 3953 8974 3952 9029 3988 9030 SMITH NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 12:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Fulton | 6 hr |
| 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, 3:53 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 |
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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.