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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Lincoln, IL

July 9, 2003Edgar County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 2003, 2:54 PM CDT for Edgar 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 9, 2003, 2:54 PM CDT (19:54 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Edgar County, IL

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 279 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -182 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 874 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KILX 091957
FFWILX
ILC045-092300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
254 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EDGAR COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 253 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN NEAR CHRISMAN. TWO AND A HALF INCHES OF
  RAIN HAS BEEN ESTIMATED SINCE 2 PM.

* THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD END IN NORTHEAST EDGAR COUNTY BY 4 PM.  HOWEVER...
  RUNOFF FROM THE STORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON.  
  RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF THREE INCHES IN A ONE HOUR PERIOD 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 3988 8772 3974 8772 3965 8754 3987 8753

$$

BARKER

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1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KILX 092102
FFSILX
ILC045-092300-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
400 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR EDGAR COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM
CDT...

AT 358 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
HEAVY RAINS CONTINUING TO MOVE OVER PORTIONS OF EDGAR COUNTY. 
2 TO 2 AND ONE HALF INCHES INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN ESTIMATED SINCE 
1 PM.

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.

$$

GOETSCH

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Morgan, Scott	61 min
Jul 8, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cass, Mason	66 min
Jul 8, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Menard	63 min
Jul 8, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Sangamon	30 min
Jul 8, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian	51 min
Jul 8, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Moultrie, Shelby	45 min
Jul 9, 11:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	McLean	58 min
Jul 9, 1:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	6 hr
Jul 9, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Edgar	25 min
Jul 9, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	McLean	55 min
Jul 9, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	McLean	50 min
Jul 9, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Woodford	65 min
Jul 9, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign	61 min
Jul 9, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	McLean	59 min
Jul 9, 5:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	McLean	6 hr
Jul 9, 5:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign	63 min
Jul 9, 5:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Piatt	41 min
Jul 9, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Tazewell	65 min
Jul 9, 5:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	6 hr
Jul 9, 6:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Vermilion	52 min
Jul 9, 6:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Woodford	6 hr
Jul 9, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Woodford	59 min
Jul 9, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt	55 min
Jul 9, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton	66 min
Jul 9, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	McLean	62 min
Jul 9, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Piatt	56 min
Jul 9, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Edgar	62 min
Jul 9, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Douglas	63 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Illinois, 2003 Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.