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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2010, 7:51 PM CDT for Fulton County, Mason County, Illinois. It was in force for 25 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 4, 2010, 7:51 PM CDT (00:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2010, 8:16 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Fulton County, IL, Mason County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:54 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 4, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 1395 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1438 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
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 4, 6:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 6:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 250 PM CDT FRI JUN 4 2010 ILZ027>031-036-037-040-041-047-051200- CASS-FULTON-KNOX-MARSHALL-MASON-PEORIA-SCHUYLER-STARK-TAZEWELL- WOODFORD- 250 PM CDT FRI JUN 4 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH SUNSET... AS A COLD FRONT MOVES TOWARD CENTRAL ILLINOIS FROM THE NORTHWEST. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS AROUND ONE INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. THE ILLINOIS RIVER DOWNSTREAM OF PEORIA IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OR GET INTO FLOOD FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. THE SPOON RIVER AT LONDON MILLS IS EXPECTED TO FALL BELOW FLOOD STAGE BY EARLY THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE FRONT WILL STALL OUT ACROSS THE AREA ON SATURDAY...SETTING THE STAGE FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS... ESPECIALLY SATURDAY MORNING...WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINS OVER 1 INCH FROM I-74 NORTH. THE MAIN THREATS WILL CONTINUE TO BE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THERE IS ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THROUGH 9 PM...AND THEN AGAIN TOWARD SUNRISE SATURDAY. ILZ038-042>046-048>057-061>063-066>068-073-051200- CHAMPAIGN-CHRISTIAN-CLARK-COLES-CRAWFORD-CUMBERLAND-DE WITT- DOUGLAS-EDGAR-EFFINGHAM-JASPER-LAWRENCE-LOGAN-MACON-MCLEAN-MENARD- MORGAN-MOULTRIE-PIATT-SANGAMON-SCOTT-SHELBY-VERMILION- 250 PM CDT FRI JUN 4 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS...EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING...AS A COLD FRONT MOVES TOWARD CENTRAL ILLINOIS FROM THE NORTHWEST. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS AROUND ONE INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE FRONT WILL STALL OUT ACROSS THE AREA ON SATURDAY...SETTING THE STAGE FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS... ESPECIALLY SATURDAY MORNING...WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINS OVER 1 INCH FROM I-74 NORTH. THE MAIN THREATS WILL CONTINUE TO BE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THERE IS ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED BETWEEN 4 PM AND 11 PM. ILZ071-072-051200- CLAY-RICHLAND- 250 PM CDT FRI JUN 4 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING...AS A COLD FRONT MOVES TOWARD CENTRAL ILLINOIS FROM THE NORTHWEST. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS AROUND ONE INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. THE LITTLE WABASH RIVER AT CLAY CITY IS EXPECTED TO BE IN FLOOD THROUGH SUNDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE FRONT WILL STALL OUT ACROSS THE AREA ON SATURDAY...SETTING THE STAGE FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS... ESPECIALLY SATURDAY MORNING. THE MAIN THREATS WILL CONTINUE TO BE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THERE IS ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED BETWEEN 4 PM AND 11 PM. KH
In the hours 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 4, 7:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Stark | 66 min |
| Jun 4, 7:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Fulton, Mason | 63 min |
| Jun 4, 9:36 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ILX | Fulton, Knox | 66 hr |
| Jun 5, 12:37 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ILX | Fulton | 4 days |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.