Alert archive / Illinois / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2007, 12:24 PM CDT for Shelby County, Illinois. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2007, 12:24 PM CDT (17:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2007, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Shelby County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 1358 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1012 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KILX 261725
FFWILX
ILC173-262130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
1224 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SHELBY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS...
* UNTIL 430 PM CDT.
* AT 1219 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR HAS
ESTIMATED 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 9 AM THIS MORNING.
THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THESE
AREAS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY RANGE FROM 1 TO 2 INCHES
THIS AFTERNOON. THESE RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY
PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...SHELBYVILLE...
COWDEN...FINDLAY...LAKEWOOD...STEWARDSON...TOWER HILL...WESTERVELT
AND WINDSOR.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.
REPORT FLASH FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGER...OR THE
NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.
LAT...LON 3933 8910 3924 8910 3922 8850 3939 8850
3956 8880 3963 8887 3965 8901 3936 8900
$$
GOETSCH2 follow-up statements
000
WGUS73 KILX 261907
FFSILX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
204 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2007
ILC173-262130-
SHELBY-
204 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2007
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR
SHELBY COUNTY...
AT 158 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
SHOW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED AREA. THESE STORMS
WERE GRADUALLY WEAKENING...AND THIS TREND IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE
THROUGH 4 PM. IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME FOR THE WATER IN THE WARNED
AREA TO SUBSIDE. THE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... WINDSOR...WESTERVELT AND FINDLAY
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 3933 8910 3924 8910 3922 8850 3939 8850
3956 8880 3963 8887 3965 8901 3936 8900
$$
GOETSCH000
WGUS73 KILX 262032
FFSILX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
333 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2007
ILC173-262043-
SHELBY-
333 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2007
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SHELBY COUNTY...
THE RAIN HAS ENDED ACROSS THE AREA OF CONCERN. THE FLASH FLOODING HAS
SUBSIDED AND IS NO LONGER A THREAT TO LIFE AND PROPERTY. MINOR
FLOODING MAY PERSIST...BUT ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING IS NOT EXPECTED.
THEREFORE THE FOR SHELBY COUNTY... HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 3933 8910 3924 8910 3922 8850 3939 8850
3956 8880 3963 8887 3965 8901 3936 8900
$$
GOETSCHNearby
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.