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Areal Flood Warning 27, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 26, 2011Cumberland County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this areal flood warning at Jun 26, 2011, 5:02 AM CDT for Cumberland County, Illinois. It was in force for 6 hr. 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 26, 2011, 5:02 AM CDT (10:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2011, 11:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Cumberland County, IL

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1094 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood 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 areal flood warning went out at Jun 26, 2:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 2:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 3:37 PM CDT, 13 hours 25 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
337 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 2011

ILZ029-031-036-037-040-041-261145-
FULTON-MASON-PEORIA-SCHUYLER-TAZEWELL-WOODFORD-
337 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
ILLINOIS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT...AS STORM COMPLEXES MOVE
INTO CENTRAL ILLINOIS FROM THE WEST...ALONG A WARM FRONT THAT WILL
LINGER AND CONTINUE RAIN CHANCES THROUGH THE WEEKEND. STORMS ARE NO LONGER
ANTICIPATED TO BE SEVERE TONIGHT...THOUGH SMALL HAIL AND LOCALIZED HEAVY
RAIN WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE. AREAS THAT HAVE RECENTLY RECEIVED
PLENTY OF RAIN WILL NEED TO REMAIN PARTICULARLY ALERT TO FLASH
FLOODING POSSIBILITIES.

MUCH OF THE ILLINOIS RIVER...DOWNSTREAM OF PEORIA...WILL REMAIN
IN FLOOD THROUGH THE WEEKEND.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

A WARM FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL STALL ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS ON SUNDAY
AND MONDAY...BRINGING THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA THROUGH
MONDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS SUNDAY AND
SUNDAY NIGHT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY
HAZARDS...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

ILZ027-028-030-038-042>046-048-053>057-062-063-068-073-261145-
CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-COLES-CRAWFORD-CUMBERLAND-DE WITT-DOUGLAS-EDGAR-
KNOX-LAWRENCE-LOGAN-MACON-MARSHALL-MCLEAN-MENARD-MOULTRIE-PIATT-
STARK-VERMILION-
337 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 2011

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT...AS STORM COMPLEXES MOVE
INTO CENTRAL ILLINOIS FROM THE WEST...ALONG A WARM FRONT THAT WILL
LINGER AND CONTINUE RAIN CHANCES THROUGH THE WEEKEND. STORMS ARE NO LONGER
ANTICIPATED TO BE SEVERE TONIGHT...THOUGH SMALL HAIL AND LOCALIZED HEAVY
RAIN WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE. AREAS THAT HAVE RECENTLY RECEIVED
PLENTY OF RAIN WILL NEED TO REMAIN PARTICULARLY ALERT TO FLASH
FLOODING POSSIBILITIES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

A WARM FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL STALL ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS ON SUNDAY
AND MONDAY...BRINGING THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA THROUGH
MONDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS SUNDAY AND
SUNDAY NIGHT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY
HAZARDS...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

ILZ047-049-050-261145-
CASS-MORGAN-SCOTT-
337 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
ILLINOIS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...AS
STORM COMPLEXES MOVE INTO CENTRAL ILLINOIS FROM THE WEST. THE
PRIMARY HAZARDS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...ALONG WITH
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING.  AREAS THAT HAVE
RECENTLY RECEIVED PLENTY OF RAIN WILL NEED TO REMAIN PARTICULARLY
ALERT TO FLASH FLOODING POSSIBILITIES...THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT.

MUCH OF THE ILLINOIS RIVER...DOWNSTREAM OF PEORIA...WILL REMAIN
IN FLOOD THROUGH THE WEEKEND.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

A WARM FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL STALL ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS ON SUNDAY
AND MONDAY...BRINGING THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA THROUGH
MONDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS SUNDAY AND
SUNDAY NIGHT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY
HAZARDS...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED BETWEEN 3 PM AND 10 PM.

ILZ051-052-061-066-067-071-072-261145-
CHRISTIAN-CLAY-EFFINGHAM-JASPER-RICHLAND-SANGAMON-SHELBY-
337 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 2011

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...AS
STORM COMPLEXES MOVE INTO CENTRAL ILLINOIS FROM THE WEST. THE
PRIMARY HAZARDS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...ALONG WITH
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING.  AREAS THAT HAVE
RECENTLY RECEIVED PLENTY OF RAIN WILL NEED TO REMAIN PARTICULARLY
ALERT TO FLASH FLOODING POSSIBILITIES...THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT.

THE LITTLE WABASH RIVER NEAR CLAY CITY WILL REMAIN ABOVE FLOOD
THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND POSSIBLY INTO NEXT WEEK.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

A WARM FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL STALL ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS ON SUNDAY
AND MONDAY...BRINGING THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA THROUGH
MONDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS SUNDAY AND
SUNDAY NIGHT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY
HAZARDS...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED BETWEEN 3 PM AND MIDNIGHT.

HJS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 26, 1:06 AM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
106 AM CDT SUN JUN 26 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0101 AM     FLASH FLOOD      2 NE MASON              38.97N 88.60W
06/26/2011                   EFFINGHAM          IL   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            ROUTE 37 NEAR I-57 CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 1:07 AM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
107 AM CDT SUN JUN 26 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0105 AM     HEAVY RAIN       FLORA                   38.67N 88.48W
06/26/2011  E2.00 INCH       CLAY               IL   EMERGENCY MNGR

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 1:18 AM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 1:20 AM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 1:34 AM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 1:37 AM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 7:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Morgan, Sangamon	58 min
Jun 25, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cass, Morgan	59 min
Jun 25, 7:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Sangamon	55 min
Jun 25, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, Sangamon	46 min
Jun 25, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cass, Morgan, Scott	56 min
Jun 25, 8:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Cass, Mason, Morgan, Schuyler, Scott	6 hr
Jun 25, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, Sangamon	61 min
Jun 25, 9:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Scott	56 min
Jun 25, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Morgan, Scott	54 min
Jun 25, 9:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Christian, Menard, Morgan, Sangamon	6 hr
Jun 25, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Morgan, Sangamon	42 min
Jun 25, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Effingham, Jasper	63 min
Jun 25, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, Shelby	58 min
Jun 25, 11:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Clay, Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper, Shelby	6 hr
Jun 25, 11:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Clark, Crawford, Cumberland, Jasper	6 hr
Jun 25, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay	59 min
Jun 25, 11:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Clay, Lawrence, Richland	12 hr
Jun 26, 12:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Lawrence, Richland	64 min
Jun 26, 1:10 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	ILX	Sangamon	6 hr
Jun 26, 2:26 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILX	Cass, Morgan, Scott	9 hr
Jun 26, 3:25 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILX	Sangamon	6 hr
Jun 26, 10:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ILX	Lawrence	4 days
Jun 26, 11:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILX	Morgan	6 hr
Jun 26, 2:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	ILX	Cass, Morgan, Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott	15 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Illinois, 2011 Every areal flood warning in 2011

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.