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Freeze Watch 3, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this freeze watch at Sep 22, 2012, 3:03 AM CDT for Fulton County, Knox County, Stark County, Illinois. It took effect at Sep 23, 2012, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 22, 2012, 3:03 AM CDT (08:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 23, 2012, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2012, 3:22 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
Counties Fulton County, IL, Knox County, IL, Stark County, IL
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1083 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze watch 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 freeze watch went out at Sep 22, 2:53 AM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 22, 2:53 AM CDT, 10 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 325 PM CDT FRI SEP 21 2012 ILZ027>030-036-040-041-047>051-221200- CASS-FULTON-KNOX-MARSHALL-MASON-MENARD-MORGAN-PEORIA-SANGAMON- SCHUYLER-SCOTT-STARK- 325 PM CDT FRI SEP 21 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL PASS FROM WESTERN ILLINOIS TO SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS TONIGHT. A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN FROM TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY AS THE NEXT SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT. ILZ031-037-038-042>046-052>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-221200- CHAMPAIGN-CHRISTIAN-CLARK-CLAY-COLES-CRAWFORD-CUMBERLAND-DE WITT- DOUGLAS-EDGAR-EFFINGHAM-JASPER-LAWRENCE-LOGAN-MACON-MCLEAN- MOULTRIE-PIATT-RICHLAND-SHELBY-TAZEWELL-VERMILION-WOODFORD- 325 PM CDT FRI SEP 21 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS...EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL PASS FROM WESTERN ILLINOIS TO SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS...WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING FOR LARGE HAIL WITH SOME STORMS POSSIBLY PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN FROM TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY AS THE NEXT SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING. GOETSCH
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 21, 9:20 PM CDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 7:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Coles | 41 min |
| Sep 21, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles | 36 min |
| Sep 21, 7:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Clark | 28 min |
| Sep 21, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark | 26 min |
| Sep 21, 9:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Lawrence | 55 min |
| Sep 22, 3:22 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | ILX | Cass, Champaign, DeWitt, Fulton, Knox, Logan and 15 more | 17 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.