Alert archive / Illinois / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 2007, 4:02 AM CDT for McDonough County, Illinois. It was in force for 6 hr. 9 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2007, 4:02 AM CDT (09:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2007, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
County McDonough County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:01 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 5:37 AM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 6.73 | 4 Se Blandinsville, IL | STORM TOTAL SINCE LAST EVENING. MINOR WATER IN BASEMENT. |
| Jun 22, 6:40 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 5 Sw Macomb, IL | WATER 8 INCHES DEEP ON 900E JUST SOUTH OF 900N. |
| Jun 22, 6:40 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 9 Wnw Macomb, IL | WATER 1 FOOT DEEP AT 1400N AND 350E. LOCATION IS 9.1 WEST NORTHWEST OF MACOMB. |
| Jun 22, 6:40 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Blandinsville, IL | WATER FLOWING ACROSS ILLINOIS ROUTE 9. |
| Jun 22, 7:56 AM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 1.85 | 1 W Tennessee, IL | OVERNIGHT TOTAL. TOTAL SINCE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON 2.30. |
| Jun 22, 8:50 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 2 E Blandinsville, IL | ALL CREEKS HAVE RISEN...WITH UP TO ONE FOOT OF WATER ON 350E NEAR BLANDENSVILLE |
| Jun 22, 9:08 AM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 1.4 | 4 S Colchester, IL | RAINFALL SINCE LAST NIGHT |
| Jun 22, 9:08 AM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 5 | Good Hope, IL | RAINFALL TOTAL FROM LAST NIGHT AND THIS MORNING |
| Jun 22, 9:08 AM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 7 | Blandinsville, IL | RAINFALL TOTAL FROM STORMS LAST NIGHT AND THIS MORNING |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 1177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KDVN 220905 FFWDVN ILC109-221500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 402 AM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MCDONOUGH COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MACOMB... * UNTIL 1000 AM CDT * AT 358 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED AREA. RADAR ESTIMATES 2.5 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 1 AM. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF UP TO AN INCH IS POSSIBLE THROUGH SUNRISE. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SCIOTA... GOOD HOPE...BLANDINSVILLE...AND ARGYLE LAKE STATE PARK. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING...ESPECIALLY WHILE DRIVING. FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY ON BAPTIST...CEDAR...ROCK...AND SPRING CREEKS. SIGNIFICANT RISES OR FLOODING IS ALSO LIKELY ON THE EAST FORK OF THE LA MOINE RIVER. LAT...LON 4033 9091 4046 9057 4061 9071 4060 9091 $$ 08
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KDVN 221149 FFSDVN FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 646 AM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007 ILC109-221500- MCDONOUGH IL- 646 AM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CDT FOR MCDONOUGH COUNTY... AT 642 AM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING OVER THE WARNED AREA. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SCIOTA...GOOD HOPE AND BLANDINSVILLE. MCDONOUGH COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED WATER A FOOT DEEP AT THE INTERSECTION OF 1400 NORTH AND 350 EAST. WATER 8 INCHES DEEP WAS REPORTED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF 900 EAST AND 900 NORTH. WATER WAS FLOWING ACROSS ILLINOIS ROUTE 9 IN BLANDINSVILLE. ANOTHER ROUND OF STORMS WILL MOVE MOVING INTO MCDONOUGH COUNTY IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IS POSSIBLE. DO NOT DRIVE ON FLOODED ROADS. MOST FATALITIES OCCUR IN VEHICLES SWEPT AWAY IN FLOOD WATERS AS SHALLOW AS 1 FOOT. LAT...LON 4033 9091 4046 9057 4061 9071 4060 9091 $$ 08
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | McDonough | 34 min |
| Jun 21, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Rock Island | 38 min |
| Jun 21, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henderson | 23 min |
| Jun 21, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | McDonough | 45 min |
| Jun 21, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Warren | 35 min |
| Jun 21, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Hancock | 35 min |
| Jun 22, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henderson | 60 min |
| Jun 22, 4:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DVN | Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Mercer, Warren | 7 hr |
| Jun 22, 5:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Hancock | 6 hr |
| Jun 22, 6:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Henderson | 6 hr |
| Jun 22, 9:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | McDonough | 4 hr |
| Jun 22, 3:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DVN | Bureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess and 7 more | 24 hr |
| Jun 22, 6:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Hancock, Henderson, McDonough | 9 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Illinois, 2007Every flash flood warning in 2007
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.