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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this special weather statement at Jul 29, 2011, 5:28 PM CDT for Clark County, Illinois. It was in force for 62 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
- Jul 29, 2011, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2011, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
County Clark County, IL
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 1383 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1000 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Jul 29, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 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, 1:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
150 PM CDT FRI JUL 29 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0600 AM HEAVY RAIN ROANOKE 40.80N 89.20W
07/29/2011 M1.20 INCH WOODFORD IL CO-OP OBSERVER
0600 AM HEAVY RAIN BRADFORD 41.18N 89.66W
07/29/2011 M1.11 INCH STARK IL CO-OP OBSERVER
0600 AM HEAVY RAIN 2 W PRINCEVILLE 40.93N 89.79W
07/29/2011 M1.54 INCH PEORIA IL CO-OP OBSERVER
0616 AM TSTM WND DMG 1 N ABINGDON 40.82N 90.40W
07/29/2011 KNOX IL MESONET
NUMEROUS LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN. SWOP
0620 AM TSTM WND DMG YATES CITY 40.78N 90.01W
07/29/2011 KNOX IL CO-OP OBSERVER
NUMEROUS CORN FIELDS FLATTENED BY STRONG THUNDERSTORM
WINDS AROUND YATES CITY.
0630 AM TSTM WND DMG ELMWOOD 40.78N 89.97W
07/29/2011 PEORIA IL CO-OP OBSERVER
TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN ACROSS ROUTE 8 IN ELMWOOD.
0700 AM HEAVY RAIN KNOXVILLE 40.91N 90.29W
07/29/2011 M1.01 INCH KNOX IL MESONET
RAINFALL TOTAL FROM 5 AM TO 7 AM. SWOP
0700 AM HEAVY RAIN 2 SW CAMP GROVE 41.06N 89.66W
07/29/2011 M1.03 INCH STARK IL CO-OP OBSERVER
0700 AM HEAVY RAIN 1 NE DAHINDA 40.96N 90.09W
07/29/2011 M1.64 INCH KNOX IL CO-OP OBSERVER
0704 AM HEAVY RAIN GILSON 40.87N 90.20W
07/29/2011 M2.11 INCH KNOX IL MESONET
SWOP REPORT
0800 AM HEAVY RAIN EUREKA 40.72N 89.28W
07/29/2011 M1.00 INCH WOODFORD IL MESONET
TOTAL MORNING RAINFALL. SWOP.
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BARNESSpecial weather statement, Jul 29, 5:28 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
528 PM CDT FRI JUL 29 2011
ILZ057-063-292330-
CLARK-EDGAR-
528 PM CDT FRI JUL 29 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN CLARK AND
SOUTHEASTERN EDGAR COUNTIES UNTIL 630 PM CDT...
AT 525 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR MARSHALL...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM IN ADDITION TO TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MARSHALL...
OLIVER...
DENNISON...
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 3935 8753 3933 8755 3933 8759 3931 8784
3945 8787 3954 8753
TIME...MOT...LOC 2228Z 255DEG 14KT 3939 8776
SMITHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 10:32 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | ILX | Clark, Clay, Crawford, Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 29, 5:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILX | Edgar, Vermilion | 4 hr |
| Jul 29, 6:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILX | Clark | 4 hr |
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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.