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Areal Flood Warning 30, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this areal flood warning at Jul 30, 2011, 1:25 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
- Jul 30, 2011, 1:25 AM CDT (06:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 2011, 7:16 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 06:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1826 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 816 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
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 Jul 29, 11:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 11:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 309 PM CDT FRI JUL 29 2011 ILZ027>031-036>038-301100- FULTON-KNOX-MARSHALL-MCLEAN-PEORIA-STARK-TAZEWELL-WOODFORD- 309 PM CDT FRI JUL 29 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT AS A COLD FRONT SETTLES SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE AREA. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY HOT AND HUMID WEATHER WILL BE COMMON THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...WITH THE HOTTEST DAY EXPECTED TO BE TUESDAY WHEN HEAT INDEX VALUES CLIMB WELL ABOVE 100 DEGREES. A COLD FRONT WILL BRING THE NEXT THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA LATE TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. ILZ040>057-061-301100- CASS-CHAMPAIGN-CHRISTIAN-COLES-DE WITT-DOUGLAS-EDGAR-LOGAN-MACON- MASON-MENARD-MORGAN-MOULTRIE-PIATT-SANGAMON-SCHUYLER-SCOTT-SHELBY- VERMILION- 309 PM CDT FRI JUL 29 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT AS A COLD FRONT SETTLES SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE AREA. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED...HOWEVER SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY HOT AND HUMID WEATHER WILL BE COMMON THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...WITH THE HOTTEST DAY EXPECTED TO BE TUESDAY WHEN HEAT INDEX VALUES CLIMB WELL ABOVE 100 DEGREES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. ILZ062-063-066>068-071>073-301100- CLARK-CLAY-CRAWFORD-CUMBERLAND-EFFINGHAM-JASPER-LAWRENCE-RICHLAND- 309 PM CDT FRI JUL 29 2011 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT AS A COLD FRONT SETTLES SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE AREA. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED...HOWEVER SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL REMAIN AROUND 105 DEGREES INTO THE EARLY EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY...BUT SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED. HOT AND HUMID WEATHER WILL BE COMMON THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...WITH THE HOTTEST DAY EXPECTED TO BE TUESDAY WHEN HEAT INDEX VALUES CLIMB WELL ABOVE 100 DEGREES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. BARNES
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 29, 8:56 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
856 PM CDT FRI JUL 29 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0855 PM FLASH FLOOD NEOGA 39.32N 88.45W
07/29/2011 CUMBERLAND IL TRAINED SPOTTER
3 FEET OF WATER OVER HIGHWAY 45. RELAYED BY WFO LSX
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GEELHARTSpecial weather statement, Jul 29, 9:01 PM CDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 7:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Cumberland | 67 min |
| Jul 29, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cumberland, Effingham, Shelby | 62 min |
| Jul 29, 7:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Coles, Cumberland | 6 hr |
| Jul 29, 8:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Crawford, Jasper | 52 min |
| Jul 29, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Jasper | 26 min |
| Jul 29, 9:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Crawford, Lawrence | 59 min |
| Jul 29, 9:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILX | Clark, Crawford, Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper | 6 hr |
| Jul 29, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland | 52 min |
| Jul 29, 9:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Clark, Crawford, Jasper | 6 hr |
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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.