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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 22, 200935 counties in Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this heat advisory at Jun 22, 2009, 1:54 AM CDT for 35 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Jun 22, 2009, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 54 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 2009, 1:54 AM CDT (06:54 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 22, 2009, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jun 24, 2009, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
54 hr
Issued by
NWS Lincoln, IL
All 35 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, Fulton County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Knox County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Mason County, IL, McLean County, IL, Menard County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Richland County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Scott County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Stark County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Woodford County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:54 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 46 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2009-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 312 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2009-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
312 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1472 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
209 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Jun 21, 6:56 PM CDT, 6 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 6:56 PM CDT, 6 hours 58 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 3:22 PM CDT, 10 hours 32 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
322 PM CDT SUN JUN 21 2009

ILZ027>031-036-037-040-041-047>050-221100-
CASS-FULTON-KNOX-MARSHALL-MASON-MENARD-MORGAN-PEORIA-SCHUYLER-
SCOTT-STARK-TAZEWELL-WOODFORD-
322 PM CDT SUN JUN 21 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
ILLINOIS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
TODAY AND TONIGHT...MAINLY NORTHWEST OF INTERSTATE 55. SOME STORMS
MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN IN PORTIONS OF
CENTRAL ILLINOIS ON THURSDAY...BUT THOSE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED
TO REACH SEVERE LEVELS.

MINOR FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ON THE ILLINOIS RIVER...FROM HAVANA
AND POINTS DOWNSTREAM...THROUGH THE NEXT WEEK. THE SPOON RIVER AT
LONDON MILLS WILL BE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE THROUGH MONDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED BETWEEN 2 PM AND 9 PM TODAY.

ILZ038-042>046-051>053-055>057-063-221100-
CHAMPAIGN-CHRISTIAN-CLARK-COLES-DE WITT-DOUGLAS-EDGAR-LOGAN-MACON-
MCLEAN-PIATT-SANGAMON-VERMILION-
322 PM CDT SUN JUN 21 2009

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS CENTRAL AND EAST
CENTRAL ILLINOIS THROUGH TONIGHT...ALTHOUGH SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT
EXPECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON THURSDAY...BUT THEY ARE
NOT EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LEVELS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT.

ILZ054-061-062-066>068-071>073-221100-
CLAY-CRAWFORD-CUMBERLAND-EFFINGHAM-JASPER-LAWRENCE-MOULTRIE-
RICHLAND-SHELBY-
322 PM CDT SUN JUN 21 2009

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS EAST CENTRAL AND
SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS THROUGH TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF
ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SOME STORMS
MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT.

HJS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 3:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementILXLawrence37 min
Jun 22, 5:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementILXRichland65 min
Jun 22, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXRichland38 min

Nearby

Heat Advisories in Illinois, 2009Every heat advisory in 2009

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.