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Flash Flood Warning 57, NWS Lincoln, IL

July 22, 2004Crawford County, Jasper County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 2004, 4:00 PM CDT for Crawford County, Jasper County, Illinois. It was in force for 5 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 22, 2004, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2004, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Crawford County, IL, Jasper County, IL

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 1619 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 917 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KILX 222102
FFWILX
ILC033-079-230200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
400 PM CDT THU JUL 22 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CRAWFORD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 400 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS MUCH OF JASPER AND CRAWFORD
  COUNTIES. TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN ESTIMATED SINCE 
  300 PM.

* THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS
  JASPER AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY RANGE 
  FROM 4 TO 6 INCHES BY 600 PM. THESE RAINFALL AMOUNTS 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 3917 8767 3887 8756 3886 8835 3916 8835

$$

MILLER

NNNN

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KILX 222247
FFSILX
ILC023-033-035-079-101-173-222300-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
547 PM CDT THU JUL 22 2004

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SHELBY...CLARK...CUMBERLAND...
CRAWFORD...JASPER AND LAWRENCE COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

THE HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOOD THREAT HAS ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.
THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

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 3878 8790 3886 8792 3885 8814 3888 8821
      3904 8836 3916 8836 3918 8847 3921 8847
      3923 8854 3937 8866 3925 8774 3871 8769

$$

BAK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 2:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark	59 min
Jul 22, 12:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Menard	52 min
Jul 22, 12:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Logan	58 min
Jul 22, 1:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Macon	66 min
Jul 22, 1:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Macon	43 min
Jul 22, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Piatt	59 min
Jul 22, 1:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Piatt	51 min
Jul 22, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Douglas	65 min
Jul 22, 1:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian	64 min
Jul 22, 2:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Richland	3 hr
Jul 22, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Moultrie, Shelby	66 min
Jul 22, 2:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Lawrence	57 min
Jul 22, 2:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Douglas	39 min
Jul 22, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles	62 min
Jul 22, 2:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Lawrence	4 hr
Jul 22, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Edgar	66 min
Jul 22, 3:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Shelby	6 hr
Jul 22, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cumberland	44 min
Jul 22, 3:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Clark, Cumberland	6 hr
Jul 22, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Effingham, Jasper	63 min
Jul 22, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Crawford	53 min
Jul 22, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Lawrence, Richland	54 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Illinois, 2004 Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.