Alert archive / Illinois / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Mar 26, 2004, 4:15 PM CST for Vermilion 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
- Mar 26, 2004, 4:15 PM CST (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2004, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Vermilion County, IL
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 547 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 392 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 431 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KILX 262219 FFWILX ILC183-270115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 415 PM CST FRI MAR 26 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... VERMILION COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 715 PM CST * AT 415 PM CST...FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED AROUND DANVILLE IN THE MORIN/S ADDITION SUBDIVISION. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT BETWEEN 3 AND 4.5 INCHES OF RAIN FELL ACROSS CENTRAL VERMILION COUNTY AROUND DANVILLE SINCE THURSDAY...AND MUCH OF THAT FALLING TODAY. THE DANVILLE VERMILION COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY IS REQUESTING VOLUNTARY EVACUATIONS OF RESIDENTS IN THE MORIN/S ADDITION SUBDIVISION OF DANVILLE. WATER CONTINUES TO BE RISING IN THIS AREA FROM THE RUNOFF OF THE HEAVY RAINS TODAY. 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 4039 8756 4004 8756 4002 8795 4039 8793 $$ KH NNNN
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KILX 262357 FFSILX ILC183-270115- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 552 PM CST FRI MAR 26 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR VERMILION COUNTY UNTIL 715 PM CST... AT 552 PM CST...VERMILION COUNTY ESDA REPORTED THAT VOLUNTARY EVACUATIONS OF 13 FAMILIES IN THE MORINS ADDITION SUBDIVISION OF DANVILLE WOULD CONTINUE AS WATER LEVELS CONTINUE TO RISE. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT MORE THAN 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THIS LOCATION SINCE YESTERDAY. A FEW LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING ACROSS VERMILION COUNTY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING... WHICH WILL AGGRAVATE ANY FLOODING THAT HAS ALREADY OCCURRED. LAT...LON 4048 8744 4001 8746 4000 8793 4048 8794 $$ MILLER
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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.