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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 24, 2004Schuyler County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 2004, 10:48 PM CDT for Schuyler County, Illinois. It was in force for 6 hr. 7 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2004, 10:48 PM CDT (03:48 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2004, 4:45 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Schuyler County, IL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 24, 10:49 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Rushville, IL	WATER OVER US ROUTE 67 NORTH OF RUSHVILLE. REPORTED BY SCHUYLER COUNTY SHERIFF.
May 24, 10:49 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Rushville, IL	WATER OVER US ROUTE 67 NORTH OF RUSHVILLE. REPORTED BY SCHUYLER COUNTY SHERIFF.
May 24, 10:49 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Rushville, IL	WATER OVER US ROUTE 67 NORTH OF RUSHVILLE. REPORTED BY SCHUYLER COUNTY SHERIFF.
May 25, 12:00 AM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Rushville, IL	FLOODING TO SEVERAL ROADS COUNTYWIDE.
May 25, 12:00 AM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Rushville, IL	FLOODING TO SEVERAL ROADS COUNTYWIDE.
May 25, 12:00 AM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Rushville, IL	FLOODING TO SEVERAL ROADS COUNTYWIDE.
May 25, 12:00 AM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Rushville, IL	FLOODING TO SEVERAL ROADS COUNTYWIDE.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 150 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -246 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1872 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 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 250351
FFWILX
ILC169-250945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
1048 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SCHUYLER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 445 AM CDT

* AT 1039 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER NORTHWEST SCHUYLER COUNTY. TWO AND
  A HALF TO THREE INCHES INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN ESTIMATED SINCE 8 PM.

* THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO
  INCHES PER HOUR WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SCHUYLER COUNTY THROUGH
  THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. THESE RAINFALL RATES WILL LIKELY
  PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING...PARTICULARLY IN THE AREA OF WILLIAMS CREEK.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT AT NIGHT TO JUDGE HOW
MUCH WATER COVERS ROADWAYS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS.

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 4025 9056 4010 9049 4013 9089 4028 9089

$$

BARKER

NNNN

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS73 KILX 250704
FFSILX
ILC169-250945-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
203 AM CDT TUE MAY 25 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR SCHUYLER COUNTY UNTIL 445 AM
CDT...

AT 203 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
HEAVY RAINS HAVE ENDED ACROSS THE COUNTY. UP TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN
HAS BEEN ESTIMATED SINCE THIS EVENING. WIDESPREAD FLOODING HAS BEEN
REPORTED ACROSS SCHUYLER COUNTY.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT AT NIGHT TO JUDGE HOW
MUCH WATER COVERS ROADWAYS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS.

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 4028 9047 4018 9046 4017 9028 4007 9044
          3999 9048 3999 9061 4012 9071 4011 9090
          4027 9091

$$

BARKER

000 
WGUS73 KILX 250942
FFSILX
ILC169-251000-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
439 AM CDT TUE MAY 25 2004

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SCHUYLER COUNTY IS BEING ALLOWED TO
EXPIRE...

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

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 4022 9087 4005 9056 4012 9041 4025 9054

$$

HALL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cass, Morgan, Schuyler, Scott	53 min
May 24, 10:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Fulton	59 min
May 24, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Logan	54 min
May 24, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Menard	53 min
May 24, 11:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Mason	58 min
May 24, 11:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Scott	42 min
May 24, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Logan	60 min
May 24, 11:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Logan	58 min
May 24, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton	41 min
May 24, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Morgan, Sangamon	56 min
May 24, 11:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt	53 min
May 24, 11:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Cass, Logan, Mason, Menard	6 hr
May 24, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Tazewell	66 min
May 24, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Menard	46 min
May 24, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	McLean	59 min
May 24, 11:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Morgan, Sangamon	48 min
May 24, 11:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Tazewell	62 min
May 25, 12:04 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Menard	56 min
May 25, 12:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian	41 min
May 25, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Macon	55 min
May 25, 12:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	DeWitt	6 hr
May 25, 12:28 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Christian	32 min
May 25, 12:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Logan	60 min
May 25, 12:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt	59 min
May 25, 12:40 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Macon	65 min
May 25, 12:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles, Cumberland, Moultrie, Shelby	41 min
May 25, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Effingham, Jasper, Richland	49 min
May 25, 1:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Piatt	47 min
May 25, 1:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign	56 min
May 25, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles, Douglas	65 min
May 25, 1:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cumberland	57 min
May 25, 1:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Vermilion	66 min
May 25, 1:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Edgar	62 min
May 25, 2:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland	57 min
May 25, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Jasper	46 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.