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Areal Flood Warning 9, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 16, 2009Champaign County, Logan County, Vermilion County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this areal flood warning at May 16, 2009, 12:59 AM CDT for Champaign County, Logan County, Vermilion County, Illinois. It was in force for 172 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 16, 2009, 12:59 AM CDT (05:59 UTC)
Expired: Nov 3, 2009, 12:30 PM CST
In force: 172 days
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Champaign County, IL, Logan County, IL, Vermilion County, IL

The radar

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood 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 areal flood warning went out at May 16, 12:20 AM CDT, 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 16, 12:20 AM CDT, 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 15, 2:30 PM CDT, 10 hours 29 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
230 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 2009

ILZ027>031-036>038-161200-
FULTON-KNOX-MARSHALL-MCLEAN-PEORIA-STARK-TAZEWELL-WOODFORD-
230 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 2009

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
ILLINOIS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING.
SOME OF THE STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS INTO THIS EVENING...
WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. AN ISOLATED TORNADO WILL BE
POSSIBLE FROM PEORIA SOUTH.

VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO EXPECTED THROUGH THIS EVENING AND RAINFALL
AMOUNTS MAY REACH BETWEEN 1.5 TO 3 INCHES...WITH LOCAL 3 TO 5 INCH
AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. THIS RAIN FALLING ON ALREADY SATURATED
SOILS...WILL AGGRAVATE ONGOING FLOODING PROBLEMS ACROSS THE AREA.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL SHIFT SOUTHEAST OF THE AREA AFTER
3 AM TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

MANY AREA RIVERS WILL REMAIN AT OR ABOVE FLOOD STAGE FOR THE
NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. IN PARTICULAR...THE ILLINOIS...MACKINAW...AND
SPOON RIVERS WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED BETWEEN 3 AND 10 PM.

ILZ040>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-161200-
CASS-CHAMPAIGN-CHRISTIAN-CLARK-CLAY-COLES-CRAWFORD-CUMBERLAND-
DE WITT-DOUGLAS-EDGAR-EFFINGHAM-JASPER-LAWRENCE-LOGAN-MACON-MASON-
MENARD-MORGAN-MOULTRIE-PIATT-RICHLAND-SANGAMON-SCHUYLER-SCOTT-
SHELBY-VERMILION-
230 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
ILLINOIS...EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING NORTH OF I-70 AND SOUTH OF I-70
TONIGHT...AS A COLD FRONT PUSHES EAST ACROSS THE AREA. SOME OF THE
STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE
HAIL. AN ISOLATED TORNADO WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE NORTH OF I-70.
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY DEVELOP...AND FALL ON ALREADY SATURATED
SOILS. ANY ONGOING FLOODING PROBLEMS ACROSS THE AREA WILL LIKELY
BE AGGRAVATED.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL SHIFT SOUTHEAST OF THE AREA EARLY
SATURDAY MORNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

MANY AREA RIVERS WILL REMAIN AT OR ABOVE FLOOD STAGE FOR THE
NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. IN PARTICULAR...THE ILLINOIS...SANGAMON...
LITTLE WABASH...AND EMBARRAS RIVERS WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED BETWEEN 5 PM AND 1 AM.

HUETTL

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 15, 11:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 15, 11:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 15, 11:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 15, 11:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 15, 11:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 16, 12:31 AM CDT, 28 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 7:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Champaign, Piatt, Vermilion	6 hr
May 15, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, Macon, Shelby	41 min
May 15, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	41 min
May 15, 7:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Fulton, Knox, Marshall, Peoria, Schuyler, Stark and 2 more	4 hr
May 15, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	40 min
May 15, 7:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Christian, Moultrie, Shelby	6 hr
May 15, 8:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar	6 hr
May 15, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles, Cumberland, Moultrie, Shelby	42 min
May 15, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Edgar, Vermilion	20 min
May 15, 9:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILX	Effingham	3 hr
May 15, 9:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILX	Clay, Jasper, Richland	3 hr
May 15, 9:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Clark	40 min
May 15, 10:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILX	Crawford, Lawrence	5 hr
May 15, 10:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILX	Fulton, Knox, McLean, Marshall, Mason, Peoria and 3 more	6 days
May 15, 11:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILX	Cass, DeWitt, Douglas, Logan, Macon, Mason and 6 more	35 days
May 16, 12:45 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILX	Clay, Crawford, Effingham, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland	146 days
May 16, 1:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILX	Christian, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar and 2 more	186 days
May 16, 2:17 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ILX	Vermilion	50 hr
May 16, 6:58 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ILX	Crawford, Jasper	38 hr
May 16, 10:23 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ILX	Cass, Mason, Menard	6 days
May 16, 11:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILX	Cass, DeWitt, Logan, McLean, Macon, Mason and 6 more	189 days
May 16, 1:03 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILX	Champaign, Logan, Vermilion	224 days
May 16, 6:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILX	Logan, Mason	225 days

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.