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Heat Advisory 4, NWS Lincoln, IL

July 27, 201135 counties in Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this heat advisory at Jul 27, 2011, 12:12 PM CDT for 35 counties in Illinois. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 27, 2011, 12:12 PM CDT (17:12 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Lincoln, IL
All 35 counties

Cass County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Knox County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Mason County, IL, McLean County, IL, Menard County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Richland County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Scott County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Stark County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Woodford County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 46 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2011-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1719 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2011-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1719 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-108 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1079 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Jul 26, 6:05 PM CDT, 18 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 6:05 PM CDT, 18 hours 7 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 26, 4:06 PM CDT, 20 hours 6 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
406 PM CDT TUE JUL 26 2011

ILZ027>031-036>038-040>043-047-048-271100-
CASS-DE WITT-FULTON-KNOX-LOGAN-MARSHALL-MASON-MCLEAN-MENARD-
PEORIA-SCHUYLER-STARK-TAZEWELL-WOODFORD-
406 PM CDT TUE JUL 26 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
ILLINOIS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR UNTIL SUNSET. THE SEVERE
WEATHER THREAT IS LOW BUT GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY DOWNPOURS... FREQUENT
LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE. HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 100 TO
105 DEGREES WILL OCCUR THROUGH EARLY EVENING...IN AREAS WHERE
STORMS DO NOT OCCUR.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 100 TO 105 DEGREES ARE LIKELY WEDNESDAY AND
THURSDAY AFTERNOONS.

THERE IS A RISK OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...AS A
COLD FRONT SLOWLY MOVES INTO THE AREA.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT.

ILZ044>046-049>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-271100-
CHAMPAIGN-CHRISTIAN-CLARK-CLAY-COLES-CRAWFORD-CUMBERLAND-DOUGLAS-
EDGAR-EFFINGHAM-JASPER-LAWRENCE-MACON-MORGAN-MOULTRIE-PIATT-
RICHLAND-SANGAMON-SCOTT-SHELBY-VERMILION-
406 PM CDT TUE JUL 26 2011

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR THROUGH SUNSET. THE SEVERE
WEATHER THREAT IS LOW...THOUGH HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT
LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE. HEAT INDEX
VALUES OF 100 TO 105 DEGREES WILL OCCUR THROUGH EARLY EVENING...
OUTSIDE OF THE STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 100 TO 105 DEGREES ARE LIKELY EACH
AFTERNOON...FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

THERE IS A RISK OF THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...AS A
COLD FRONT SLOWLY MOVES INTO THE AREA.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT.

GEELHART

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 2:50 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryILXCass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles and 29 more28 hr

Nearby

Heat Advisories in Illinois, 2011Every heat advisory 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.