Alert archive / Illinois / Flood Watches in 2008
Flood Watch 3, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flood watch at Feb 15, 2008, 3:27 PM CST for 22 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Feb 16, 2008, 9:00 PM CST. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 2008, 3:27 PM CST (21:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 16, 2008, 9:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2008, 2:00 PM CST
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Flood severity
- None
All 22 counties
Cass County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Knox County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Mason County, IL, McLean County, IL, Menard County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Scott County, IL, Stark County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Woodford County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 3:19 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ILX | Fulton, Knox, Marshall, Peoria, Schuyler, Stark | 12 hr |
Nearby
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.