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Flash Flood Watch 8, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood watch at Jun 15, 2010, 8:08 PM CDT for Sangamon County, Illinois. It was in force for 19 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2010, 8:08 PM CDT (01:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2010, 2:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Flood severity
- None
County Sangamon County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 325 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 654 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood watch went out at Jun 15, 6:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 6:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 3:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 347 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2010 ILZ027>031-037-038-042-048-161100- KNOX-LOGAN-MARSHALL-MCLEAN-MENARD-PEORIA-STARK-TAZEWELL-WOODFORD- 347 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS INTO EARLY EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE PRIMARY THREATS BEING DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE NEXT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT ENTERS THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. ILZ036-040-041-047-049-050-161100- CASS-FULTON-MASON-MORGAN-SCHUYLER-SCOTT- 347 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS INTO EARLY EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE PRIMARY THREATS BEING DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. RIVER FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ON THE ILLINOIS RIVER DOWNSTREAM FROM HAVANA...AND ALSO ALONG THE SPOON RIVER NEAR LONDON MILLS...THROUGH THE REST OF THE WEEK. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE NEXT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT ENTERS THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY AND EARLY THIS EVENING. ILZ043-051>053-161100- CHRISTIAN-DE WITT-MACON-SANGAMON- 347 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS INTO THIS EVENING AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE STATE. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE PRIMARY THREATS BEING DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE NEXT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT ENTERS THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY AND EARLY THIS EVENING. ILZ044-161100- PIATT- 347 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2010 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS TODAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE STATE. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE PRIMARY THREATS BEING DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. SOME OF THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. EXPECT FLOODING TO CONTINUE ALONG THE SANGAMON RIVER NEAR MONTICELLO FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ILZ045-046-054>057-061>063-161100- CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-COLES-CUMBERLAND-DOUGLAS-EDGAR-MOULTRIE-SHELBY- VERMILION- 347 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2010 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS THROUGH THIS EVENING AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE STATE. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE PRIMARY THREATS BEING DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. SOME OF THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ILZ066>068-073-161100- CRAWFORD-EFFINGHAM-JASPER-LAWRENCE- 347 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS THROUGH THIS EVENING AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE STATE. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE PRIMARY THREATS BEING DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE WABASH RIVER FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ILZ071-072-161100- CLAY-RICHLAND- 347 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS TODAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE STATE. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE PRIMARY THREATS BEING DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE LITTLE WABASH RIVER FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BARKER
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Flash Flood Watches in Illinois, 2010Every flash flood watch in 2010
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.