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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Chicago, IL

June 4, 2002Lee County, Illinois

NWS Chicago, IL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 2002, 7:03 AM CDT for Lee County, Illinois. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 2002, 7:03 AM CDT (12:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2002, 10:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Chicago, IL
Area: Whole counties

County Lee County, IL

The radar

The Chicago radar (KLOT), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 223 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -151 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 672 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 316 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 310 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.1

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KLOT 041203
FFWCHI
ILC103-041500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
700 AM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHICAGO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LEE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 1000 AM CDT

* AT 700 AM CDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED VERY HEAVY
  OVERNIGHT RAINFALL OF 3.67 INCHES AT COMPTON. RADAR SHOWS NEW      
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN APPROACHING THE AREA. THE STORMS     
  WILL MOVE OVER LEE COUNTY BETWEEN 730 AND 830 AM.  

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  AMBOY
  ASHTON
  DIXON
  FRANKLIN GROVE
  PAW PAW

RAPID FLOODING OF CREEKS...SMALL STREAMS...ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS
WILL OCCUR. EVACUATE AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING OCCURS.



FISHER

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Chicago, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 4, 1:47 AM CDT, 5 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 1:47 AM CDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
147 AM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002

PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION

AT 05Z ACTIVE CLUSTER TS OVER XTRM NE IA-NW IL JUST W OF OUR AREA.
STORMS MOVG ENE TO E. MORE TS DVLPG OVER C IA AND BACK INTO NE-KS. ALL
THIS N OF FRONT AS AREAS TO S CAPPED.

GENERAL PATTERN IS FOR WESTERN TROF TO MOVE E AND UPPER HEIGHTS TO
SLOWLY FALL. ETA/AVN HAVE SOME 500/700 VORTICITY TO MOVE OVER N AND W
PARTS AREA DURING AFTERNOON ALONG WITH STRONG UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE
AND ALL OF AREA TONIGHT AT 700 LEVEL WITH SHARPENING 850 TROF. MAIN
UPPER TROF 500 VORT LOBE DRAGS OVER AREA WED AFTERNOON/WED NIGHT. BY
FRIDAY UPPER RIDGE OVER US WITH HIGHER HEIGHTS AND POSSIBLE SYSTEM
COMING FROM NW PER AVN.

ALL MODELS SHOW VERY SLIGHT SEEP SE TO HIGH RH FROM XTRM NW IL-N IL
NORTH IN WI BY 00Z BUT THEN MAJOR PUSH TO SE OVERNIGHT WHICH CONTINUES
WED ALONG WITH COOLING TEMPERATURES ALOFT. THIS PUSH ACCOMPAINED BY
GOOD OMEGA SPREADING W TO E LATE AFTERNOON/NIGHT.

THE WAY NIGHT STORMS ARE TRACKING THEY SHOULD HOLD THE FRONT IN PLACE
AND PRODUCE NICE BOUNDARY FOR AFTERNOON TS GENESIS. DO NOT BELIEVE
FRONT WILL BE ABLE TO MOVE FARTHER N THEN S TIP OF LAKE SO TEMPS AGAIN
TO SHOW STRONG DIFFERENCES OVER THE FORECAST AREA.

AT THIS POINT THURSDAY THRU FRIDAY LOOKS GREAT.

LAST MINUTE DECISIONS WILL BE BASED ON LATEST RADAR DATA.

.CHI...NONE

AF

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 4, 5:48 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

ILZ003>006-008-010>014-019>023-032>033-039-INZ001>002-010>011-019-
041700-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
600 AM CDT/EST TUE JUN 4 2002

FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST ILLINOIS AND NORTHWEST INDIANA

THERE IS THE SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT.

A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND FAR
NORTHEAST ILLINOIS.

A STATIONARY FRONT LIES FROM NEAR MOLINE TO NEAR KANKAKEE TO NEAR
RENSSELAER EARLY THIS MORNING. THE FRONT WILL DRIFT SLOWLY NORTH TODAY
AND THEN MOVE SOUTHEAST TONIGHT. PERIODS OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH
HEAVY RAIN...WILL OCCUR TODAY NORTH OF THE FRONT. IN ADDITION LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM ALONG
THE FRONT AS IT STARTS TO SINK SOUTH.

THE MAIN THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER AT THIS TIME SEEMS TO BE LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WINDS. IN AREAS ESPECIALLY NORTH OF THE FRONT WHERE
REPEAT THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED...SOME FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE.

AF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	DeKalb, Kane, Kendall, Lee, Ogle	44 min
Jun 3, 7:59 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LOT		2 hr
Jun 3, 7:59 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LOT		2 hr
Jun 3, 7:59 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LOT		2 hr
Jun 3, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Will	50 min
Jun 4, 5:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOT	Ogle	3 hr
Jun 4, 1:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	DeKalb, Kane, Kendall, LaSalle	44 min
Jun 4, 1:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	DuPage, Will	38 min
Jun 4, 1:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Cook	38 min
Jun 4, 1:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Grundy, LaSalle	46 min
Jun 4, 1:45 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LOT		60 min
Jun 4, 1:45 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LOT		60 min
Jun 4, 1:45 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LOT		60 min
Jun 4, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	LaSalle, Livingston	47 min
Jun 4, 2:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	LaSalle, Livingston	40 min
Jun 4, 3:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Livingston	28 min
Jun 4, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Grundy, Livingston	26 min
Jun 4, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Livingston	23 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.