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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this special weather statement at Apr 28, 2012, 4:38 PM CDT for Sangamon County, Illinois. It was in force for 67 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 28, 2012, 4:38 PM CDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2012, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
County Sangamon County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 90 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.
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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 28, 2:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 2:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 232 PM CDT SAT APR 28 2012 .DISCUSSION... ISSUED 215 PM CDT SAT APR 28 2012 SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT FORECAST CONCERNS THIS PERIOD INCLUDE CONVECTION COVERAGE THIS EVENING ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST ALONG WITH A SEVERE THREAT EARLY...AND THEN TEMPERATURES AS WELL AS POPS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD. SHORTWAVE AFFECTING THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON BRINGING BETTER COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF THE FORECAST AREA...CLOSER TO THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY ALONG THE I-70 CORRIDOR. IN THE WAKE OF THE CONVECTION AND WEAK SHORTWAVE PUSHING ACRS THE REGION THIS EVENING...THE BOUNDARY WILL GET NUDGED FURTHER SOUTH FOR A TIME OVERNIGHT AND INTO SUNDAY...BEFORE SHIFTING BACK NORTH AS A WARM FRONT LATE TOMORROW EVENING INTO MONDAY. THE LARGE COOL CANADIAN HIGH NORTH OF THE GREAT LAKES IS FORECAST BY ALL MODELS TO FINALLY SHIFT TO OUR EAST LATER SUNDAY ALLOWING THE NORTHWARD PUSH TO THE BOUNDARY AS ANOTHER SHORTWAVE PUSHES ACROSS THE MIDWEST. HIGHEST POPS TONIGHT WILL BE CLOSER TO THE BOUNDARY OVER OUR FAR SOUTH TONIGHT...WITH POPS INCREASING AGAIN LATER SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY AS THE NEXT WAVE APPROACHES AND INTERACTS WITH THE WARM FRONT. TEMPERATURES WILL BE A CHALLENGE STARTING EARLY NEXT WEEK AS THE BOUNDARY SHIFTS NORTH ACROSS THE MIDWEST. MODELS HAVE TRENDED WARMER AT ALL LOCATIONS MONDAY BUT WITH CLOUDS AND PRECIP ACRS THE AREA HAVE TRENDED DOWNWARD EXCEPT IN THE FAR SOUTHEAST WHERE READINGS WILL WARM TO AROUND 80. HIGHS TUESDAY WILL BE PUSHING INTO THE LOW 80S FAR WEST AND SOUTH WITH ALL LOCATIONS SEEING 80S ON WEDNESDAY EXPECTED HIGHS WITH READINGS SHOOTING INTO THE 80S ACRS THE WEST AND SOUTH TUESDAY. LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY MEDIUM RANGE MODELS CONTINUE TO INDICATE THE PATTERN BECOMING MORE ZONAL WITH TIME EARLY IN THE FORECAST PERIOD...AND THEN TRANSLATING TO A SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW BY THE END OF THE WEEK. TIMING OF EACH WAVE COMING OUT OF THE MORE PROGRESSIVE FLOW WILL CONTINUE TO BE A CHALLENGE THRU THE PERIOD WITH RESPECT TO RAIN CHANCES EACH DAY. IT APPEARS THE MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHORTWAVE DURING THIS TIME FRAME WILL PUSH ACRS THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND UPPER MIDWEST AND APPROACH OUR AREA LATE WED NIGHT INTO THURSDAY. AS A RESULT...HAVE INCREASED THE POPS...ESPECIALLY ACRS THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA DURING THIS PERIOD WHICH WILL BE CLOSER TO THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY APPROACHING FROM THE NW. AFTER THAT...ENSEMBLES SUGGESTING AS A DEEP TROF PUSHING INTO THE NW PORTION OF THE COUNTRY LATE NEXT WEEK AND DURING THE WEEKEND...AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL BUILD OVER THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE COUNTRY WHICH WOULD NORMALLY TAKE THE CONVECTION CHANCES TO OUR NORTH CLOSER TO THE STRONGER FLOW ALOFT. WILL START TO CUT BACK ON MENTIONABLE POPS AS THE STRONG UPPER WAVE SHIFTS AWAY FROM OUR AREA STARTING ON FRIDAY AND HOLDING THRU SATURDAY WITH TEMPERATURES THRU THIS PERIOD EXPECTED TO BE ABOVE NORMAL. SMITH && .AVIATION... ISSUED 1218 PM CDT SAT APR 28 2012 SHOWERS/STORMS HAVE BEGUN DEVELOPING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AT MIDDAY. AWIPS TIME-OF-ARRIVAL TOOL INDICATES THE STORMS BE NEAR KSPI AROUND 18Z AND KDEC JUST BEFORE 19Z. RADAR LOOPS WOULD SUGGEST THEY WOULD STAY JUST BARELY SOUTH OF THE AIRPORTS...BUT WILL MENTION TEMPO GROUPS FOR TSRA THE FIRST COUPLE HOURS TO ACCOUNT FOR ANY NORTHWARD DEVELOPMENT. WITH WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY ROUGHLY ALONG THE KSPI-KCMI CORRIDOR...MOST CONVECTION WILL REMAIN TO THE SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON. ANY UPWARD MOVEMENT IN THE CEILING HEIGHTS THIS AFTERNOON IS LIKELY TO COME BACK DOWN TO MVFR RANGE THIS EVENING...AS AN UPPER WAVE SENDS SOME PERIODS OF LIGHT RAIN BACK OVER THE TAF SITES OVERNIGHT INTO SUNDAY. GEELHART && .ILX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 28, 3:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 315 PM CDT SAT APR 28 2012 ILZ027>031-036>038-291100- FULTON-KNOX-MARSHALL-MCLEAN-PEORIA-STARK-TAZEWELL-WOODFORD- 315 PM CDT SAT APR 28 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY PERIODIC THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FROM SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. ILZ040>057-291100- CASS-CHAMPAIGN-CHRISTIAN-COLES-DE WITT-DOUGLAS-EDGAR-LOGAN-MACON- MASON-MENARD-MORGAN-MOULTRIE-PIATT-SANGAMON-SCHUYLER-SCOTT- VERMILION- 315 PM CDT SAT APR 28 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS SOUTH OF I-72 MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL...BUT THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE FURTHER SOUTH...ROUGHLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 70 CORRIDOR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY PERIODIC THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE FROM SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. ILZ061>063-066>068-071>073-291100- CLARK-CLAY-CRAWFORD-CUMBERLAND-EFFINGHAM-JASPER-LAWRENCE-RICHLAND- SHELBY- 315 PM CDT SAT APR 28 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS...EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS INTO THIS EVENING. A FEW STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. AN ISOLATED TORNADO WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG A FRONTAL BOUNDARY THAT WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY PERIODIC THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE FROM SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. SMITH
In the hours before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 3:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Jasper | 39 min |
| 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, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham | 60 min |
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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.