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Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 13, 2002Morgan County, Sangamon County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2002, 4:10 AM 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 13, 2002, 4:10 AM CDT (09:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2002, 10:00 AM 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 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 1457 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 935 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.3
Supercell composite: -2.4

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KILX 130910
FFWSPI
ILC137-167-131500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
410 AM CDT THU JUN 13 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 1000 AM CDT

* AT 405 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING IN A BAND FROM MEREDOSIA TO WAVERLY TO 
  PAWNEE. RADAR WAS ESTIMATING RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES 
  SINCE 2 AM. AT 405 AM...SANGAMON COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICES REPORTED
  FLOODING ON ROUTE 104...EAST OF WAVERLY.  
 
* THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE
  AREA PAST DAYBREAK. RAINFALL RATES APPROACHING 2 INCHES AN 
  HOUR WILL BE LIKELY AT TIMES. THESE RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY 
  PRODUCE 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 3982 8948 3954 8955 3955 9016 3986 9047

FRIEDERS


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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, 9:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Knox	6 hr
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, 4:23 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

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.