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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this special weather statement at May 22, 2011, 8:08 AM CDT for Clark County, Coles County, Cumberland County, Illinois. It was in force for 82 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, 8:08 AM CDT (13:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2011, 9:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 82 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
Counties Clark County, IL, Coles County, IL, Cumberland County, IL
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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, 7:12 AM CDT, 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 7:12 AM CDT, 56 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 22, 5:26 AM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 808 AM CDT SUN MAY 22 2011 ILZ056-057-061>063-066>068-221430- CLARK-COLES-CRAWFORD-CUMBERLAND-EDGAR-EFFINGHAM-JASPER-SHELBY- 808 AM CDT SUN MAY 22 2011 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR COLES...CUMBERLAND...NORTHEASTERN EFFINGHAM...NORTHERN JASPER...NORTHWESTERN CRAWFORD...SOUTHEASTERN SHELBY...SOUTHWESTERN EDGAR AND WESTERN CLARK COUNTIES UNTIL 930 AM CDT... AT 805 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR NEOGA...OR 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MATTOON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LERNA... JANESVILLE... MATTOON... CHARLESTON... ASHMORE... WESTFIELD... OTHER LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...TROWBRIDGE...PARADISE...ETNA... TRILLA...COLES COUNTY AIRPORT AND FOX RIDGE STATE PARK. PEOPLE NEAR THESE LOCATIONS SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN. LAT...LON 3974 8785 3920 8770 3905 8843 3937 8860 TIME...MOT...LOC 1308Z 240DEG 34KT 3933 8848 SHIMON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 5:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Piatt | 64 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 |
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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.