Alert archive / Illinois / Winter Storm Watches in 2008
Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this winter storm watch at Jan 30, 2008, 3:19 AM CST for 29 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Jan 31, 2008, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 30, 2008, 3:19 AM CST (09:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 31, 2008, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 31, 2008, 3:26 AM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
All 29 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, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Mason County, IL, McLean County, IL, Menard County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Richland County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Scott County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Woodford County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:17 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 786 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 102 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -244 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm watch went out at Jan 29, 11:30 PM CST, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 29, 11:30 PM CST, 3 hours 49 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 29, 3:26 PM CST, 11 hours 53 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 326 PM CST TUE JAN 29 2008 ILZ027>031-036>038-040-041-301200- FULTON-KNOX-MARSHALL-MASON-MCLEAN-PEORIA-SCHUYLER-STARK-TAZEWELL- WOODFORD- 326 PM CST TUE JAN 29 2008 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST WEDNESDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL ONLY GRADUALLY DECREASE AFTER MIDNIGHT. PERIODS OF BLOWING SNOW WILL PERSIST THROUGH MUCH OF THE EVENING AND OCCASIONALLY REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO AS LOW AS A QUARTER OF A MILE AT TIMES. BITTERLY COLD AIR WILL CONTINUE TO FILTER INTO THE AREA AND WIND CHILLS ARE EXPECTED TO FALL INTO THE 15 DEGREES BELOW ZERO TO 25 DEGREES BELOW ZERO RANGE LATE TONIGHT AND INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. THE ILLINOIS RIVER SOUTH OF PEORIA WILL CONTINUE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A STORM SYSTEM WILL TRACK THROUGH THE OHIO VALLEY THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY BRINGING A CHANCE OF LIGHT SNOW TO THE AREA. THE ILLINOIS RIVER SOUTH OF PEORIA WILL CONTINUE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. RIVER LEVELS ARE EXPECTED TO DROP BELOW FLOOD STAGE THIS WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT...ALTHOUGH REPORTS OF ANY DAMAGE WITH THE STRONG WINDS OR SNOWFALL REPORTS WOULD BE APPRECIATED. ILZ042>044-047>053-301200- CASS-CHRISTIAN-DE WITT-LOGAN-MACON-MENARD-MORGAN-PIATT-SANGAMON- SCOTT- 326 PM CST TUE JAN 29 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL ONLY GRADUALLY DECREASE DURING THE EVENING. PERIODS OF BLOWING SNOW WILL PERSIST THROUGH MUCH OF THE EVENING AND OCCASIONALLY REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO AS LOW AS A MILE AT TIMES. BITTERLY COLD AIR WILL CONTINUE TO FILTER INTO THE AREA AND WIND CHILLS ARE EXPECTED TO FALL INTO THE 5 DEGREES BELOW ZERO TO 15 DEGREES BELOW ZERO RANGE LATE TONIGHT AND INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. THE ILLINOIS RIVER SOUTH OF PEORIA WILL CONTINUE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM WILL TRACK THROUGH THE OHIO VALLEY THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY BRINGING A CHANCE OF ACCUMULATING SNOW TO THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT...ALTHOUGH REPORTS OF ANY DAMAGE WITH THE STRONG WINDS OR SNOWFALL REPORTS WOULD BE APPRECIATED. ILZ066>068-071>073-301200- CLAY-CRAWFORD-EFFINGHAM-JASPER-LAWRENCE-RICHLAND- 326 PM CST TUE JAN 29 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL PLOW ACROSS EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS LATE THIS AFTERNOON...ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG WINDS AND SHARPLY COLDER WEATHER BY EVENING. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS BEING THE PRIMARY THREAT. ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. ONCE THE FRONT PASSES TO THE EAST...STRONG WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP...GUSTING UP TO 45 MPH AT TIMES. SPEEDS SHOULD SLOWLY DIMINISH LATE THIS EVENING. LINGERING LIGHT SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH LITTLE OR NO ACCUMULATION EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A STORM SYSTEM WILL TRACK THROUGH THE OHIO VALLEY THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY BRINGING A CHANCE OF SIGNIFICANT SNOW TO THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING... PRIMARILY UNTIL 7 PM. ILZ045-046-054>057-061>063-301200- CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-COLES-CUMBERLAND-DOUGLAS-EDGAR-MOULTRIE-SHELBY- VERMILION- 326 PM CST TUE JAN 29 2008 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING... ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL PLOW ACROSS CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS THIS AFTERNOON...BRINGING VERY WINDY AND SHARPLY COLDER WEATHER BY LATE IN THE DAY. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP...A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE. A TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE UNTIL 7 PM. ONCE THE FRONT PASSES TO THE EAST...STRONG WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP...GUSTING UP TO 45 MPH AT TIMES. LINGERING SHOWERS WILL CHANGE BRIEFLY OVER TO SNOW SHOWERS BEFORE ENDING THIS EVENING. LITTLE OR NO ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED. WINDS WILL GRADUALLY SUBSIDE LATE TONIGHT AS THE STRONG LOW PULLS WELL TO OUR EAST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM WILL TRACK THROUGH THE OHIO VALLEY THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY BRINGING A CHANCE OF SIGNIFICANT SNOW TO THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED UNTIL 7 PM CST. BARKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 30, 2:48 AM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | ILX | Cass, Champaign, DeWitt, Fulton, Knox, Logan and 11 more | 6 hr |
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.