Alert archive / Illinois / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 24, 2007, 2:59 AM CDT for Marshall 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
- Aug 24, 2007, 2:59 AM CDT (07:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2007, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Marshall County, IL, Stark County, IL
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:01 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 443 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1230 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KILX 240801
FFWILX
ILC123-175-241400-
/X.NEW.KILX.FF.W.0002.070824T0759Z-070824T1400Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
259 AM CDT FRI AUG 24 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
MARSHALL COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS...
STARK COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS...
* UNTIL 900 AM CDT.
* AT 254 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR
HAS ESTIMATED THAT FROM 1 TO LOCALLY 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE
EARLY THURSDAY EVENING.
THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THESE
AREAS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY RANGE FROM 1 TO 2
INCHES BY 500 AM CDT. THESE RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE
FLASH FLOODING.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...LACON...CAMP
GROVE...CASTLETON...HENRY...LA FAYETTE...SPARLAND...TOLUCA...
TOULON...VARNA...WEST JERSEY AND WYOMING.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE
UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS
SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
REPORT FLASH FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGER...OR THE
NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.
LAT...LON 4099 8998 4097 8909 4109 8906 4114 8938
4115 8958 4119 8974 4115 9000
$$
SMITHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall | 41 min |
| Aug 23, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall | 45 min |
| Aug 24, 1:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Knox | 6 hr |
| Aug 24, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 44 min |
| Aug 24, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 23 min |
| Aug 24, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign | 28 min |
| Aug 24, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham | 59 min |
| Aug 24, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cumberland, Jasper | 58 min |
| Aug 24, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Crawford | 59 min |
| Aug 24, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Edgar | 51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.