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Frost Advisory 3, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this frost advisory at Oct 7, 2012, 3:25 PM CDT for 22 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Oct 8, 2012, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 7, 2012, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 8, 2012, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2012, 8:01 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
All 22 counties
Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, McLean County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Richland County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Vermilion County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 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 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 1072 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
383 WWUS73 KILX 072025 NPWILX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 325 PM CDT SUN OCT 7 2012 ILZ038-042>046-051>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-080400- /O.NEW.KILX.FR.Y.0003.121008T0600Z-121008T1300Z/ MCLEAN-LOGAN-DE WITT-PIATT-CHAMPAIGN-VERMILION-SANGAMON-CHRISTIAN- MACON-MOULTRIE-DOUGLAS-COLES-EDGAR-SHELBY-CUMBERLAND-CLARK- EFFINGHAM-JASPER-CRAWFORD-CLAY-RICHLAND-LAWRENCE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BLOOMINGTON...NORMAL...LINCOLN... CHAMPAIGN...URBANA...DANVILLE...SPRINGFIELD...TAYLORVILLE... DECATUR...CHARLESTON...MATTOON...SHELBYVILLE...EFFINGHAM... FLORA...LAWRENCEVILLE 325 PM CDT SUN OCT 7 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT MONDAY. * TEMPERATURE...EXPECT TEMPERATURE READINGS TO FALL INTO THE 30S WITHIN A FEW HOURS OF SUNSET...WITH READINGS APPROACHING FREEZING BY DAYBREAK. * IMPACTS...WHILE A HARD FREEZE IS NOT ANTICIPATED...A FEW HOURS OF FROST OR BRIEFLY FREEZING TEMPERATURES CAN DAMAGE TENDER VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ BAK
3 follow-up statements
835 WWUS73 KILX 080404 NPWILX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 1104 PM CDT SUN OCT 7 2012 ILZ038-042>046-051>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-081300- /O.CON.KILX.FR.Y.0003.121008T0600Z-121008T1300Z/ MCLEAN-LOGAN-DE WITT-PIATT-CHAMPAIGN-VERMILION-SANGAMON-CHRISTIAN- MACON-MOULTRIE-DOUGLAS-COLES-EDGAR-SHELBY-CUMBERLAND-CLARK- EFFINGHAM-JASPER-CRAWFORD-CLAY-RICHLAND-LAWRENCE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BLOOMINGTON...NORMAL...LINCOLN... CHAMPAIGN...URBANA...DANVILLE...SPRINGFIELD...TAYLORVILLE... DECATUR...CHARLESTON...MATTOON...SHELBYVILLE...EFFINGHAM... FLORA...LAWRENCEVILLE 1104 PM CDT SUN OCT 7 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT MONDAY... A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT MONDAY. * TEMPERATURE...EXPECT TEMPERATURE READINGS TO FALL INTO THE 30S WITHIN A FEW HOURS OF SUNSET...WITH READINGS APPROACHING FREEZING BY DAYBREAK. * IMPACTS...WHILE A HARD FREEZE IS NOT ANTICIPATED...A FEW HOURS OF FROST OR BRIEFLY FREEZING TEMPERATURES CAN DAMAGE TENDER VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ AUTEN
702 WWUS73 KILX 080841 NPWILX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 341 AM CDT MON OCT 8 2012 ILZ038-042>046-051>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-081300- /O.CON.KILX.FR.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-121008T1300Z/ MCLEAN-LOGAN-DE WITT-PIATT-CHAMPAIGN-VERMILION-SANGAMON-CHRISTIAN- MACON-MOULTRIE-DOUGLAS-COLES-EDGAR-SHELBY-CUMBERLAND-CLARK- EFFINGHAM-JASPER-CRAWFORD-CLAY-RICHLAND-LAWRENCE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BLOOMINGTON...NORMAL...LINCOLN... CHAMPAIGN...URBANA...DANVILLE...SPRINGFIELD...TAYLORVILLE... DECATUR...CHARLESTON...MATTOON...SHELBYVILLE...EFFINGHAM... FLORA...LAWRENCEVILLE 341 AM CDT MON OCT 8 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT THIS MORNING... A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT THIS MORNING. * TEMPERATURE...TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN THE LOW TO MID 30S THROUGH 8 AM ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN ILLINOIS. SOME AREAS FROM I-70 NORTH AND FROM I-55 EAST WILL SEE TEMPERATURES SLIP JUST BELOW FREEZING FOR A FEW HOURS EARLY THIS MORNING. * IMPACTS...WHILE A HARD FREEZE IS NOT ANTICIPATED...A FEW HOURS OF FROST OR BRIEFLY FREEZING TEMPERATURES CAN DAMAGE TENDER VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS LIKELY. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ KH
905 WWUS73 KILX 081301 NPWILX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 801 AM CDT MON OCT 8 2012 ILZ038-042>046-051>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-081415- /O.CAN.KILX.FR.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-121008T1300Z/ MCLEAN-LOGAN-DE WITT-PIATT-CHAMPAIGN-VERMILION-SANGAMON-CHRISTIAN- MACON-MOULTRIE-DOUGLAS-COLES-EDGAR-SHELBY-CUMBERLAND-CLARK- EFFINGHAM-JASPER-CRAWFORD-CLAY-RICHLAND-LAWRENCE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BLOOMINGTON...NORMAL...LINCOLN... CHAMPAIGN...URBANA...DANVILLE...SPRINGFIELD...TAYLORVILLE... DECATUR...CHARLESTON...MATTOON...SHELBYVILLE...EFFINGHAM... FLORA...LAWRENCEVILLE 801 AM CDT MON OCT 8 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY EXPIRES AT 800 AM CDT... THE FROST ADVISORY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 800 AM CDT. $$
Nearby
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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.