Alert archive / Illinois / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 64, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 2002, 9:37 PM CDT for Knox 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 12, 2002, 9:37 PM CDT (02:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2002, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Knox County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 1544 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 921 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KILX 130237 FFWSPI ILC095-130830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 937 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... KNOX COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 330 AM CDT * AT 937 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN JUST EAST OF GALESBURG. ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN ESTIMATED SINCE 830 PM CDT. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS KNOX COUNTY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY RANGE FROM ONE TO FOUR BY 1100 PM CDT. THESE RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT AT NIGHT TO JUDGE HOW MUCH WATER COVERS ROADWAYS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. 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 4089 9039 4079 9011 4108 9006 4112 9036 EH/MILLER NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 56 min |
| Jun 12, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Knox | 64 min |
| Jun 12, 11:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Fulton | 55 min |
| Jun 13, 12:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Fulton, Mason, Tazewell | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 1:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Logan | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 1:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 4:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Morgan, Sangamon | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Christian | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Scott | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 5:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Fulton, Peoria, Schuyler, Stark | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 5:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Shelby | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Mason, Tazewell | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Coles, Cumberland, Effingham | 16 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Coles, Cumberland, Effingham | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 10:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 6 hr |
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.