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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this special weather statement at Apr 26, 2012, 2:38 AM CDT for Clay County, Illinois. It was in force for 37 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
- Apr 26, 2012, 2:38 AM CDT (07:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2012, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
County Clay County, IL
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 1745 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1353 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 449 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
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 Apr 25, 6:25 PM CDT, 8 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 25, 6:25 PM CDT, 8 hours 13 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 25, 3:00 PM CDT, 11 hours 38 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 300 PM CDT WED APR 25 2012 ILZ027>031-036>038-040>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-261100- CASS-CHAMPAIGN-CHRISTIAN-CLARK-CLAY-COLES-CRAWFORD-CUMBERLAND- DE WITT-DOUGLAS-EDGAR-EFFINGHAM-FULTON-JASPER-KNOX-LAWRENCE-LOGAN- MACON-MARSHALL-MASON-MCLEAN-MENARD-MORGAN-MOULTRIE-PEORIA-PIATT- RICHLAND-SANGAMON-SCHUYLER-SCOTT-SHELBY-STARK-TAZEWELL-VERMILION- WOODFORD- 300 PM CDT WED APR 25 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS...EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE...PRIMARILY LATER THIS EVENING...AS A WEATHER SYSTEM TRACKS SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS THE PRIMARY THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES RETURN TO THE AREA FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY NIGHT AS A SERIES OF DISTURBANCES MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING...PRIMARILY BETWEEN 6 PM AND 10 PM. HJS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 65 min |
| Apr 25, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham, Jasper, Richland | 65 min |
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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.