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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 22, 2011Piatt County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this special weather statement at May 22, 2011, 5:26 AM CDT for Piatt County, Illinois. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2011, 5:26 AM CDT (10:26 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2011, 6:30 AM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL

County Piatt County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 22, 3:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 3:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 5:15 AM CDT, 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 22, 5:26 AM CDT, 0 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
May 22, 8:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Clark, Coles, Cumberland	82 min
May 22, 1:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Tazewell	52 min
May 22, 1:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Mason, Tazewell	34 min
May 22, 1:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cass, Mason, Menard, Morgan, Sangamon	55 min
May 22, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Tazewell, Woodford	36 min
May 22, 1:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Morgan	16 min
May 22, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Morgan, Scott	38 min
May 22, 2:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	McLean, Tazewell, Woodford	37 min
May 22, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Logan, Menard, Sangamon	46 min
May 22, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Logan, McLean, Tazewell	52 min
May 22, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Morgan	32 min
May 22, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Logan, Macon, Sangamon	46 min
May 22, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Sangamon	39 min
May 22, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, McLean	66 min
May 22, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Piatt	46 min
May 22, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Sangamon	47 min
May 22, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Piatt	28 min
May 22, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Knox	27 min
May 22, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton, Mason, Peoria, Tazewell	30 min
May 22, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Knox	38 min
May 22, 6:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Schuyler	37 min
May 22, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford	45 min
May 22, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton	33 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Illinois, 2011 Every special weather statement 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.