Alert archive / Illinois / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2003, 10:55 PM CDT for Clay 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
- Aug 2, 2003, 10:55 PM CDT (03:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2003, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clay County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 715 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1048 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KILX 030356 FFWILX ILC025-031000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 1055 PM CDT SAT AUG 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CLAY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 500 AM CDT * AT 1050 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS CLAY COUNTY. 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN ESTIMATED SINCE 9 PM. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS CLAY COUNTY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY RANGE FROM 3 TO 4 INCHES BY 1 AM. THESE RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING ON FLOOD PRONE HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES. NEVER WALK OR DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS AND ABANDON VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATERS. 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 3887 8832 3869 8834 3865 8863 3885 8856 $$ BAK
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KILX 030754 FFSILX ILC025-030815- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 250 AM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CLAY COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELED... AT 240 AM CDT...THE CLAY COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED THE WATER HAD RECEDED ACROSS MOST OF THE COUNTY...WITH NO ADDITIONAL REPORTS OF FLOODING RECEIVED OVER THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS. THE HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOOD THREAT HAS ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED. $$ SMITH NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark | 37 min |
| Aug 2, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Effingham | 58 min |
| Aug 3, 2:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | McLean | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan | 63 min |
| Aug 3, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Lawrence | 54 min |
| Aug 3, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Richland | 58 min |
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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.