Alert archive / Illinois / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 95, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT for McLean County, Illinois. It was in force for 4 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
- Jul 22, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2002, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County McLean County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 3265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 902 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KILX 230104 FFWSPI ILC113-230500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 800 PM CDT MON JUL 22 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MCLEAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL MIDNIGHT * AT 800 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN NORTHEAST OF LE ROY. TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN ESTIMATED SINCE 700 PM CDT. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHERN MCLEAN COUNTY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY RANGE FROM 2 TO 5 INCHES BY 1000 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 4032 8913 4033 8873 4037 8852 4056 8853 EH NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 36 min |
| Jul 22, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Macon | 46 min |
| Jul 22, 8:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Douglas | 6 hr |
| Jul 22, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Cumberland | 67 min |
| Jul 22, 9:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Cumberland | 37 min |
| Jul 22, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark | 38 min |
| Jul 22, 9:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Edgar | 4 hr |
| Jul 22, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford | 39 min |
| Jul 22, 10:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Richland | 4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.