Alert archive / Illinois / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this special weather statement at Apr 28, 2012, 3:21 PM CDT for Jasper County, Illinois. It was in force for 39 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2012, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2012, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
County Jasper County, IL
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 3:35 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 S Rose Hill, IL | |
| Apr 28, 3:41 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | 4 S Rose Hill, IL |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 1019 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 681 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 811 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
307 WWUS83 KILX 282021 SPSILX SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 321 PM CDT SAT APR 28 2012 ILZ062-063-067-282100- CLARK-CUMBERLAND-JASPER- 321 PM CDT SAT APR 28 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN JASPER...SOUTHERN CUMBERLAND AND SOUTHWESTERN CLARK COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM CDT... AT 318 PM CDT...SATELLITE IMAGERY AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NEAR WHEELER...OR 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEWTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... JEWETT... NEWTON... HIDALGO... HAZEL DELL... WILLOW HILL... OTHER LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...GILA...ROSE HILL...SAM PARR STATE PARK...HUNT CITY AND YALE. 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 3924 8796 3896 8795 3897 8836 3924 8835 TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 262DEG 26KT 3908 8831 $$ GEELHART
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Crawford, Cumberland, Jasper | 32 min |
| Apr 28, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford, Jasper | 41 min |
| Apr 28, 3:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Crawford | 37 min |
| Apr 28, 4:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Sangamon | 67 min |
| Apr 28, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham | 60 min |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.