Alert archive / Illinois / High Wind Warnings in 2008
High Wind Warning 1, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this high wind warning at Mar 31, 2008, 5:36 PM CDT for 5 counties in Illinois. It was in force for 89 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 2008, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2008, 7:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
Counties Champaign County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, McLean County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Vermilion County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 14 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 485 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS73 KILX 312236 NPWILX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 536 PM CDT MON MAR 31 2008 ...HIGH WINDS IMPACTING PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS... ILZ038-043>046-010100- /O.NEW.KILX.HW.W.0001.080331T2236Z-080401T0100Z/ MCLEAN-DE WITT-PIATT-CHAMPAIGN-VERMILION- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BLOOMINGTON...NORMAL...CHAMPAIGN... URBANA...DANVILLE 536 PM CDT MON MAR 31 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. SHOWERS ARE TRANSPORTING HIGH WINDS ALOFT TO THE SURFACE... CAUSING WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THE WIND GUSTS ARE EXPECTED TO SUBSIDE SOME IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS...BUT STILL REMAIN GUSTY THROUGH THE NIGHT. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. $$ BAK
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KILX 010005 NPWILX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 705 PM CDT MON MAR 31 2008 ILZ038-043>046-010115- /O.CAN.KILX.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-080401T0100Z/ MCLEAN-DE WITT-PIATT-CHAMPAIGN-VERMILION- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BLOOMINGTON...NORMAL...CHAMPAIGN... URBANA...DANVILLE 705 PM CDT MON MAR 31 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. WHILE WINDS WILL STILL BE GUSTY OUT OF THE SOUTH THIS EVENING AND NORTHWEST OVERNIGHT...THEY WILL NOT BE AS STRONG AS THEY WERE FOR AROUND AN HOUR EARLIER THIS EVENING. WIND GUSTS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT SHOULD BE 40 MPH OR LESS. $$ BAK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 8:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 40 min |
| Mar 31, 8:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Fulton, Mason, Morgan, Schuyler | 50 min |
| Mar 31, 11:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ILX | Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 8 more | 15 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.