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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2008, 1:06 PM CDT for Cass County, Morgan County, Scott County, Illinois. It was in force for 54 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
- Jun 27, 2008, 1:06 PM CDT (18:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2008, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cass County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Scott County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 301 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1261 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 27, 12:17 PM CDT, 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 12:17 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 1202 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2008 ILZ036-040-041-047-049-050-281100- CASS-FULTON-MASON-MORGAN-SCHUYLER-SCOTT- 1202 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. THEN A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH INTO THE REGION TONIGHT AND BRING A SECOND ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA FOR THIS EVENING AND INTO TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS TONIGHT COULD BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND POSSIBLY EVEN TORNADOES. IN ADDITION...THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL. THE ILLINOIS RIVER WILL REMAIN IN FLOOD AT HAVANA AND POINTS DOWNSTREAM THROUGH THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON SUNDAY. HOWEVER AT THIS TIME NONE OF THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING AND INTO TONIGHT. ILZ027>031-037-038-042>046-048-051>057-061>063-066>068-071>073- 281100- CHAMPAIGN-CHRISTIAN-CLARK-CLAY-COLES-CRAWFORD-CUMBERLAND-DE WITT- DOUGLAS-EDGAR-EFFINGHAM-JASPER-KNOX-LAWRENCE-LOGAN-MACON-MARSHALL- MCLEAN-MENARD-MOULTRIE-PEORIA-PIATT-RICHLAND-SANGAMON-SHELBY- STARK-TAZEWELL-VERMILION-WOODFORD- 1202 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS...EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. THEN A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH INTO THE REGION TONIGHT AND BRING A SECOND ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA FOR THIS EVENING AND INTO TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS TONIGHT COULD BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND POSSIBLY EVEN TORNADOES. IN ADDITION...THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SEVERAL WEATHER DISTURBANCES WILL IMPACT THE REGION THROUGH SATURDAY. THESE DISTURBANCES WILL BRING A PERIODIC CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH THEM. AT THIS TIME...THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS APPEARS TO BE FRIDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING AND INTO TONIGHT. HARDIMAN
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 27, 8:58 AM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Effingham, Moultrie, Shelby | 55 min |
| Jun 27, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Cumberland, Effingham, Moultrie, Shelby | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Effingham | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay | 48 min |
| Jun 27, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Cumberland | 45 min |
| Jun 27, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford, Jasper | 50 min |
| Jun 27, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Lawrence, Richland | 54 min |
| Jun 27, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark | 33 min |
| Jun 27, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford | 33 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.