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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2010, 4:17 AM CDT for 4 counties in Illinois. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2010, 4:17 AM CDT (09:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2010, 4:48 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Clark County, IL, Coles County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Edgar County, IL
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 1206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1668 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 2, 2:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 829 PM CDT TUE JUN 1 2010 ILZ027>031-036>038-040>053-021800- CASS-CHAMPAIGN-CHRISTIAN-DE WITT-FULTON-KNOX-LOGAN-MACON-MARSHALL- MASON-MCLEAN-MENARD-MORGAN-PEORIA-PIATT-SANGAMON-SCHUYLER-SCOTT- STARK-TAZEWELL-VERMILION-WOODFORD- 829 PM CDT TUE JUN 1 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A LARGE COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL TRACK ACROSS IOWA THIS EVENING...THEN INTO THE NORTHERN HALF OF ILLINOIS OVERNIGHT. SOME STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS MAY DEVELOP AS FAR SOUTH AS A JACKSONVILLE TO DANVILLE LINE. DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. THE EXACT LOCATION OF THAT BOUNDARY IS DIFFICULT TO PINPOINT AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER IT APPEARS STORMS WILL FIRE NEAR I-80 THEN SINK SOUTHWARD INTO CENTRAL ILLINOIS. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED AFTER MIDNIGHT. ILZ054>057-061-021800- COLES-DOUGLAS-EDGAR-MOULTRIE-SHELBY- 829 PM CDT TUE JUN 1 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT...HOWEVER SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. THE EXACT LOCATION OF THAT BOUNDARY IS DIFFICULT TO PINPOINT AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER IT APPEARS STORMS WILL FIRE NEAR I-80 THEN SINK SOUTHWARD INTO CENTRAL ILLINOIS. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. ILZ062-063-066>068-071>073-021800- CLARK-CLAY-CRAWFORD-CUMBERLAND-EFFINGHAM-JASPER-LAWRENCE-RICHLAND- 829 PM CDT TUE JUN 1 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP FURTHER NORTH ACROSS NORTH-CENTRAL ILLINOIS ON WEDNESDAY...THEN WILL GRADUALLY SINK SOUTHWARD TO THE I-70 CORRIDOR BY WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. 25
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 2, 2:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
222 AM CDT WED JUN 02 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0219 AM TSTM WND GST 4 SW LE ROY 40.30N 88.82W
06/02/2010 M62 MPH MCLEAN IL PUBLIC
&&
25Local storm report, Jun 2, 2:35 AM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 9:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ILX | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas and 21 more | 17 hr |
| Jun 1, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 57 min |
| Jun 1, 11:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILX | Knox | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall, Peoria, Stark, Woodford | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 12:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Fulton, Knox, Schuyler | 66 min |
| Jun 2, 12:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Marshall, Woodford | 59 min |
| Jun 2, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Fulton, Knox, Mason, Menard, Peoria and 2 more | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 12:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Fulton, Knox, Peoria | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan, Marshall, Mason, Menard, Peoria and 3 more | 67 min |
| Jun 2, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Menard, Morgan, Sangamon, Scott | 57 min |
| Jun 2, 1:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Knox | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 1:26 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILX | Fulton, Marshall, Peoria, Stark, Tazewell, Woodford | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 1:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, McLean, Marshall, Tazewell, Woodford | 54 min |
| Jun 2, 1:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Marshall, Peoria, Stark, Tazewell, Woodford | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 1:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, DeWitt, Logan, Macon, Menard, Morgan and 1 more | 63 min |
| Jun 2, 2:17 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILX | Schuyler | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas, McLean and 4 more | 68 min |
| Jun 2, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar and 1 more | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 3:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Clay, Crawford, Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper and 1 more | 64 min |
| Jun 2, 6:54 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ILX | Knox, Marshall, Peoria, Stark, Woodford | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 11:12 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ILX | Fulton, Knox | 56 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.