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Winter Storm Watch 4, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this winter storm watch at Feb 15, 2008, 3:19 PM CST for 6 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Feb 16, 2008, 9:00 PM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 2008, 3:19 PM CST (21:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 16, 2008, 9:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2008, 3:48 AM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
Counties Fulton County, IL, Knox County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Stark County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 135 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, 3:27 PM CST | Flood Watch | ILX | Cass, Champaign, Christian, DeWitt, Fulton, Knox and 16 more | 47 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.