Alert archive / Illinois / Flood Watches in 2008
Flood Watch 4, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flood watch at Mar 2, 2008, 7:59 PM CST for 35 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Mar 3, 2008, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 27 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2008, 7:59 PM CST (01:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 3, 2008, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2008, 2:30 AM CST
- In force
- 27 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Flood severity
- None
All 35 counties
Cass County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Knox County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Mason County, IL, McLean County, IL, Menard County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Richland County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Scott County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Stark County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Woodford County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:58 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1391 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 377 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Mar 2, 5:34 PM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 5:34 PM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 2, 3:33 PM CST, 4 hours 26 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 333 PM CST SUN MAR 2 2008 ILZ027>031-036>038-040-041-047-031200- CASS-FULTON-KNOX-MARSHALL-MASON-MCLEAN-PEORIA-SCHUYLER-STARK- TAZEWELL-WOODFORD- 333 PM CST SUN MAR 2 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER LATE TONIGHT BRINGING WITH IT THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP LATE TONIGHT ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS. RAINFALL MAY BE LOCALLY HEAVY. THE ILLINOIS RIVER WILL REMAIN IN FLOOD FROM HAVANA TO BEARDSTOWN FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. ADDITIONAL RISES WILL BE POSSIBLE EARLY NEXT WEEK...AND LOCATIONS FARTHER UPSTREAM MAY REACH FLOOD STAGE ONCE AGAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY PUSH ACROSS THE AREA MONDAY MORNING BRINGING THE THREAT FOR MODERATE TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. COLDER AIR WILL FILTER BACK INTO THE AREA BEHIND THIS SYSTEM. RAIN MAY BECOME MIXED WITH OR CHANGE TO SNOW BEFORE ENDING LATE MONDAY. AT THIS TIME...ANY ACCUMULATIONS BY MONDAY EVENING WILL BE UNDER AN INCH. ANOTHER WEATHER SYSTEM MAY BRING A PERIOD OF ACCUMULATING SNOWS TO THE AREA ON TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. ILZ042>046-048>057-061-031200- CHAMPAIGN-CHRISTIAN-COLES-DE WITT-DOUGLAS-EDGAR-LOGAN-MACON- MENARD-MORGAN-MOULTRIE-PIATT-SANGAMON-SCOTT-SHELBY-VERMILION- 333 PM CST SUN MAR 2 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER LATE TONIGHT BRINGING WITH IT THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP LATE TONIGHT ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS. RAINFALL MAY BE LOCALLY HEAVY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY PUSH ACROSS THE AREA MONDAY MORNING BRINGING THE THREAT FOR MODERATE TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. COLDER AIR WILL FILTER BACK INTO THE AREA BEHIND THIS SYSTEM WITH THE RAIN EXPECTED TO BECOME MIXED WITH FREEZING RAIN OR SNOW MONDAY AFTERNOON OR EVENING. SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATIONS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...A MORE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER SYSTEM MAY BRING A PERIOD OF ACCUMULATING SNOWS TO THE AREA ON TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. ILZ062-063-066>068-071>073-031200- CLARK-CLAY-CRAWFORD-CUMBERLAND-EFFINGHAM-JASPER-LAWRENCE-RICHLAND- 333 PM CST SUN MAR 2 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE AREA TOWARDS EARLY TOMORROW MORNING...BRINGING WITH IT THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS. RAINFALL MAY BE LOCALLY HEAVY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE THREAT FOR MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA MONDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT ALONG THE SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE MONDAY MORNING...BUT NO SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED. COLDER AIR WILL FILTER BACK INTO THE AREA BEHIND THIS SYSTEM LATE MONDAY...POSSIBLY SETTING THE STAGE FOR ANOTHER WINTER WEATHER EVENT MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY AS A SECONDARY STORM SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY. RAIN WILL CHANGE OVER TO FREEZING RAIN OR SNOW MONDAY NIGHT...WITH A CHANCE FOR RAIN OR SNOW TO CONTINUE ON TUESDAY AS ANOTHER WAVE OF LOW PRESSURE MOVES THROUGH. SOME ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. HARDIMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 3:04 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ILX | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles and 19 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 3, 5:02 AM CST | River Flood Warning | ILX | Fulton, Knox | 29 hr |
| Mar 3, 10:14 AM CST | River Flood Warning | ILX | Clay, Richland | 7 days |
| Mar 3, 10:16 AM CST | River Flood Warning | ILX | Lawrence | 6 days |
| Mar 3, 11:00 AM CST | River Flood Warning | ILX | Marshall, Putnam | 4 days |
| Mar 3, 11:00 AM CST | River Flood Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford | 8 days |
| Mar 3, 3:25 PM CST | Snow Advisory | ILX | Cass, Champaign, Christian, DeWitt, Douglas, Logan and 10 more | 27 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:25 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | ILX | Clark, Clay, Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar and 4 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:25 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | ILX | Champaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 10 more | 29 hr |
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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.