Alert archive / Illinois / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this wind advisory at Sep 29, 2011, 3:16 AM CDT for 27 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Sep 29, 2011, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 29, 2011, 3:16 AM CDT (08:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 29, 2011, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 29, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
All 27 counties
Cass County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, Coles County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Knox 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, 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), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:16 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 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 1454 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
970 WWUS73 KILX 290816 NPWILX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 316 AM CDT THU SEP 29 2011 ...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... .A COLD FRONT WILL QUICKLY MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS FROM LATE MORNING THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. WINDY CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP AROUND MIDDAY AS THE FRONT ARRIVES...LINGERING THROUGH AFTERNOON BEFORE DIMINISHING AROUND SUNSET. ILZ027>031-036>038-040>057-061-291600- /O.NEW.KILX.WI.Y.0004.110929T1700Z-110930T0000Z/ KNOX-STARK-PEORIA-MARSHALL-WOODFORD-FULTON-TAZEWELL-MCLEAN- SCHUYLER-MASON-LOGAN-DE WITT-PIATT-CHAMPAIGN-VERMILION-CASS- MENARD-SCOTT-MORGAN-SANGAMON-CHRISTIAN-MACON-MOULTRIE-DOUGLAS- COLES-EDGAR-SHELBY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GALESBURG...PEORIA...BLOOMINGTON... NORMAL...HAVANA...LINCOLN...CHAMPAIGN...URBANA...DANVILLE... JACKSONVILLE...SPRINGFIELD...TAYLORVILLE...DECATUR...CHARLESTON... MATTOON...SHELBYVILLE 316 AM CDT THU SEP 29 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...THE WINDIEST CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY AFTER NOON...IN THE WAKE OF A COLD FRONT. THE STRONG WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO LINGER UNTIL AROUND SUNSET...BEFORE DIMINISHING. * WINDS...NORTHWEST WINDS WILL GUST TO AROUND 40 MPH. LOCALLY HIGHER GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE NORTH OF I-74. * IMPACTS...HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES WILL BE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL. SMALL TREE BRANCHES MAY BREAK OFF. UNSECURED ITEMS LEFT OUTSIDE MAY BE BLOWN AROUND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH OR HIGHER ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ GEELHART
2 follow-up statements
453 WWUS73 KILX 291547 NPWILX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 1047 AM CDT THU SEP 29 2011 ...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... ILZ027>031-036>038-040>057-061-300000- /O.CON.KILX.WI.Y.0004.110929T1700Z-110930T0000Z/ KNOX-STARK-PEORIA-MARSHALL-WOODFORD-FULTON-TAZEWELL-MCLEAN- SCHUYLER-MASON-LOGAN-DE WITT-PIATT-CHAMPAIGN-VERMILION-CASS- MENARD-SCOTT-MORGAN-SANGAMON-CHRISTIAN-MACON-MOULTRIE-DOUGLAS- COLES-EDGAR-SHELBY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GALESBURG...PEORIA...BLOOMINGTON... NORMAL...HAVANA...LINCOLN...CHAMPAIGN...URBANA...DANVILLE... JACKSONVILLE...SPRINGFIELD...TAYLORVILLE...DECATUR...CHARLESTON... MATTOON...SHELBYVILLE 1047 AM CDT THU SEP 29 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE ACROSS THE ILLINOIS RIVER VALLEY SHORTLY AFTER NOON...THEN FURTHER EAST ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS BY MID AFTERNOON. THE STRONG WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO LINGER UNTIL AROUND SUNSET...BEFORE GRADUALLY DIMINISHING. * WINDS...NORTHWEST WINDS WILL GUST TO AROUND 40 MPH. LOCALLY HIGHER GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE NORTH OF I-74. * IMPACTS...HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES WILL BE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL. SMALL TREE BRANCHES MAY BREAK OFF. UNSECURED ITEMS LEFT OUTSIDE MAY BE BLOWN AROUND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH OR HIGHER ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ BARNES
291 WWUS73 KILX 300003 NPWILX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 703 PM CDT THU SEP 29 2011 ILZ027>031-036>038-040>057-061-300115- /O.EXP.KILX.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-110930T0000Z/ KNOX-STARK-PEORIA-MARSHALL-WOODFORD-FULTON-TAZEWELL-MCLEAN- SCHUYLER-MASON-LOGAN-DE WITT-PIATT-CHAMPAIGN-VERMILION-CASS- MENARD-SCOTT-MORGAN-SANGAMON-CHRISTIAN-MACON-MOULTRIE-DOUGLAS- COLES-EDGAR-SHELBY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GALESBURG...PEORIA...BLOOMINGTON... NORMAL...HAVANA...LINCOLN...CHAMPAIGN...URBANA...DANVILLE... JACKSONVILLE...SPRINGFIELD...TAYLORVILLE...DECATUR...CHARLESTON... MATTOON...SHELBYVILLE 703 PM CDT THU SEP 29 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. ALTHOUGH A FEW LOCAL GUSTS BETWEEN 35 AND 45 MPH WILL BE LIKELY FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS...WIND SPEEDS WILL GRADUALLY WEAKEN AND NO LONGER POSE A SIGNIFICANT THREAT TO PROPERTY. CAUTION SHOULD STILL BE EXERCISED ON NORTH-SOUTH ROADS. $$
Nearby
Wind Advisories in Illinois, 2011Every wind 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.