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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 30, 2004Knox County, Stark County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at May 30, 2004, 9:06 AM CDT for Knox County, Stark 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: May 30, 2004, 9:06 AM CDT (14:06 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2004, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Knox County, IL, Stark County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 1629 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 569 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 8.9

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KILX 301408
FFWILX
ILC095-175-302000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
906 AM CDT SUN MAY 30 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  STARK COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  KNOX COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 905 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN FROM JUST NORTH OF GILSON TO NEAR 
  WYOMING. RAINFALL ESTIMATES RANGE FROM 1 TO 2 INCHES IN THE PAST
  HOUR IN THIS LOCATION WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL EXPECTED THROUGH
  10 AM. 


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.


LAT...LON 4124 8967 4101 8967 4101 8994 4075 9043
          4113 9042 4114 9003

$$

SMITH
NNNN

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KILX 301827
FFSILX
ILC113-123-143-175-179-203-301845-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
124 PM CDT SUN MAY 30 2004

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR STARK...MARSHALL...PEORIA...
WOODFORD...MCLEAN AND TAZEWELL COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

THE HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOOD THREAT HAS ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.
THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. BE ALERT FOR
STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT WILL DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON 
WHICH WILL PRODUCE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL.

LAT...LON 4108 8933 4045 8879 4058 8984 4113 8990

$$

SMITH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 8:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton, Peoria, Tazewell	39 min
May 30, 9:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Stark	44 min
May 30, 9:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford	48 min
May 30, 9:34 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Peoria, Tazewell	6 hr
May 30, 9:46 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Tazewell, Woodford	59 min
May 30, 9:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Marshall, Woodford	6 hr
May 30, 10:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	McLean	6 hr
May 30, 11:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, McLean	39 min
May 30, 11:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Logan, Macon	50 min
May 30, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Fulton, Knox	60 min
May 30, 4:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Schuyler	66 min
May 30, 4:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Knox	6 hr
May 30, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Peoria, Stark	62 min
May 30, 4:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Peoria, Stark	61 min
May 30, 4:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Fulton, Schuyler	6 hr
May 30, 4:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Tazewell, Woodford	54 min
May 30, 4:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Peoria, Stark	6 hr
May 30, 4:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Fulton, Knox	62 min
May 30, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Menard	56 min
May 30, 4:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Cass, Mason	61 min
May 30, 5:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Shelby	54 min
May 30, 5:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Marshall	65 min
May 30, 5:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Woodford	56 min
May 30, 5:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Marshall, Woodford	6 hr
May 30, 5:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Clark, Crawford, Cumberland, Jasper	65 min
May 30, 5:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Tazewell	6 hr
May 30, 5:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Effingham, Logan, Shelby, Tazewell	59 min
May 30, 5:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Effingham, Shelby	6 hr
May 30, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Douglas, Edgar	65 min
May 30, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Logan, Tazewell	46 min
May 30, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Macon, Piatt	51 min
May 30, 6:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	McLean	57 min
May 30, 6:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Edgar	66 min
May 30, 6:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	DeWitt	63 min
May 30, 6:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Coles	59 min
May 30, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign	69 min
May 30, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper	66 min
May 30, 6:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Clark	54 min
May 30, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Piatt	56 min
May 30, 6:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign, Piatt	63 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.