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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 15, 2011Peoria County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this special weather statement at Jun 15, 2011, 12:38 AM CDT for Peoria County, Illinois. It was in force for 52 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: Jun 15, 2011, 12:38 AM CDT (05:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2011, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL

County Peoria County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -693 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 838 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 325 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Jun 15, 12:02 AM CDT, 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 12:02 AM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 3:16 PM CDT, 9 hours 22 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 15, 12:38 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
Jun 15, 12:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Knox	43 min
Jun 15, 1:56 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Fulton, Knox, Marshall, Mason, Peoria, Stark and 2 more	6 hr
Jun 15, 2:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	McLean	39 min
Jun 15, 2:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Cass, Fulton, Mason, Schuyler	4 hr
Jun 15, 3:49 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILX	McLean, Tazewell, Woodford	6 hr
Jun 15, 4:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Champaign	59 min
Jun 15, 5:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Christian	59 min
Jun 15, 5:19 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILX	Christian, Macon, Moultrie, Piatt, Shelby	4 hr
Jun 15, 5:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Macon, Moultrie, Piatt	6 hr
Jun 15, 6:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Edgar, Vermilion	28 min
Jun 15, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, Macon, Shelby	30 min
Jun 15, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Clark, Coles, Cumberland	31 min
Jun 15, 3:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Cumberland	42 min
Jun 15, 4:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Clark, Crawford, Cumberland, Jasper	40 min
Jun 15, 6:06 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ILX	Fulton, Knox	24 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.