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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lincoln, IL

April 28, 2012Sangamon County, Illinois

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2012-04-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2012-04-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 681 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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 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

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 28, 3:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementILXJasper39 min
Apr 28, 3:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXClark, Crawford, Cumberland, Jasper32 min
Apr 28, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXCrawford, Jasper41 min
Apr 28, 3:57 PM CDTTornado WarningILXCrawford37 min
Apr 28, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXClay, Effingham60 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Illinois, 2012Every special weather statement in 2012

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.