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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this special weather statement at Aug 17, 2009, 2:49 PM CDT for Cass County, Illinois. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 2009, 2:49 PM CDT (19:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2009, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
County Cass County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 899 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 17, 12:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 12:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 17, 10:36 AM CDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
1036 AM CDT MON AUG 17 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0700 AM HEAVY RAIN 2 SW ATHENS 39.94N 89.75W
08/17/2009 M1.54 INCH MENARD IL CO-OP OBSERVER
24-HOUR TOTAL
0700 AM HEAVY RAIN 2 N ATHENS 39.99N 89.72W
08/17/2009 M1.74 INCH MENARD IL CO-OP OBSERVER
24-HOUR TOTAL
0700 AM HEAVY RAIN JACKSONVILLE 39.73N 90.23W
08/17/2009 M1.90 INCH MORGAN IL CO-OP OBSERVER
24-HOUR TOTAL
0700 AM HEAVY RAIN LEWISTOWN 40.40N 90.16W
08/17/2009 M1.58 INCH FULTON IL CO-OP OBSERVER
24-HOUR TOTAL
0700 AM HEAVY RAIN MARIETTA 40.50N 90.39W
08/17/2009 M2.10 INCH FULTON IL CO-OP OBSERVER
24-HOUR TOTAL
0700 AM HEAVY RAIN 2 SW PETERSBURG 39.99N 89.88W
08/17/2009 M2.53 INCH MENARD IL CO-OP OBSERVER
24-HOUR TOTAL
0700 AM HEAVY RAIN WINCHESTER 39.63N 90.46W
08/17/2009 M3.02 INCH SCOTT IL CO-OP OBSERVER
24-HOUR TOTAL
0200 AM HEAVY RAIN BROADLANDS 39.91N 88.00W
08/17/2009 M2.81 INCH CHAMPAIGN IL MESONET
COCORAHS REPORT
0800 AM HEAVY RAIN 3 SW EMDEN 40.27N 89.53W
08/17/2009 M2.04 INCH LOGAN IL MESONET
24-HOUR TOTAL. COCORAHS REPORT
0900 AM HEAVY RAIN 5 NW ATLANTA 40.31N 89.30W
08/17/2009 M2.00 INCH LOGAN IL MESONET
COCORAHS REPORT
0600 AM HEAVY RAIN MURRAYVILLE 39.58N 90.25W
08/17/2009 M1.91 INCH MORGAN IL MESONET
COCORAHS REPORT
0630 AM HEAVY RAIN WAVERLY 39.59N 89.95W
08/17/2009 M1.55 INCH MORGAN IL MESONET
COCORAHS REPORT
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GEELHARTSpecial weather statement, Aug 17, 2:49 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
249 PM CDT MON AUG 17 2009
ILZ036-040-041-047-048-172030-
CASS-FULTON-MASON-MENARD-SCHUYLER-
249 PM CDT MON AUG 17 2009
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR CASS...NORTHWESTERN MENARD...
SOUTHEASTERN SCHUYLER...SOUTHWESTERN FULTON AND SOUTHWESTERN MASON
COUNTIES UNTIL 330 PM CDT...
AT 247 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BEARDSTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
VIRGINIA...
BROWNING...
CHANDLERVILLE...
BATH...
KILBOURNE...
OTHER LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...SNICARTE AND OAKFORD.
PEOPLE NEAR THESE LOCATIONS SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION
CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE
APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN.
LAT...LON 4011 9065 4031 9021 4005 8980 3988 9029
3989 9044
TIME...MOT...LOC 1949Z 240DEG 26KT 3998 9037
GEELHARTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 3:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ILX | Cass, DeWitt, Fulton, Knox, Logan, McLean and 11 more | 12 hr |
| Aug 17, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Logan, Mason, Menard, Morgan, Sangamon and 1 more | 52 min |
| Aug 17, 4:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILX | Logan, Sangamon | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 4:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILX | DeWitt, Logan, McLean, Tazewell, Woodford | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 5:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILX | DeWitt, Macon | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 6:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILX | Vermilion | 4 hr |
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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.