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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this special weather statement at Jun 29, 2012, 9:32 PM CDT for Stark County, Illinois. It was in force for 58 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
- Jun 29, 2012, 9:32 PM CDT (02:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2012, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
County Stark County, IL
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 2804 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
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 Jun 29, 8:55 PM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 8:55 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 29, 3:28 PM CDT, 6 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 328 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2012 ILZ027>031-036>038-043>046-055-057-301100- CHAMPAIGN-DE WITT-DOUGLAS-EDGAR-FULTON-KNOX-MARSHALL-MCLEAN- PEORIA-PIATT-STARK-TAZEWELL-VERMILION-WOODFORD- 328 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2012 ...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT SUNDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY REMAINS STALLED IN THE VICINITY. ISOLATED LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY VERY HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE WEEKEND...WITH AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 100 TO 105 ON BOTH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AS WELL. A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS COULD PRODUCE ISOLATED LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS ON SATURDAY. NO RELIEF FROM THE HEAT IS EXPECTED THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES RISING WELL INTO THE 90S EACH DAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT. ILZ040>042-047>053-301100- CASS-CHRISTIAN-LOGAN-MACON-MASON-MENARD-MORGAN-SANGAMON-SCHUYLER- SCOTT- 328 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2012 ...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT SUNDAY... 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...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY VERY HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE WEEKEND...WITH AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 105 TO 110 ON BOTH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. NO RELIEF FROM THE HEAT IS EXPECTED THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES RISING WELL INTO THE 90S EACH DAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED THROUGH TONIGHT. ILZ054-056-061>063-066>068-071>073-301100- CLARK-CLAY-COLES-CRAWFORD-CUMBERLAND-EFFINGHAM-JASPER-LAWRENCE- MOULTRIE-RICHLAND-SHELBY- 328 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2012 ...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT SUNDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS...EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY VERY HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE WEEKEND...WITH AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 105 TO 110 ON BOTH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. NO RELIEF FROM THE HEAT IS EXPECTED THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES RISING TO AROUND 100 DEGREES EACH DAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED THROUGH TONIGHT. BARNES
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 9:32 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
932 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2012
ILZ027-028-300330-
KNOX-STARK-
932 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN KNOX AND STARK COUNTIES
UNTIL 1030 PM CDT...
AT 926 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ALTONA...OR 10 MILES SOUTH OF CAMBRIDGE...
MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LA FAYETTE...
ELMIRA...
TOULON...
OSCEOLA...
WYOMING...
CASTLETON...
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 4124 8964 4103 8964 4104 9044 4115 9045
4116 8988 4124 8986
TIME...MOT...LOC 0233Z 271DEG 33KT 4115 9013
SHIMONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 3:19 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | ILX | Knox, McLean, Marshall, Peoria, Stark, Tazewell and 1 more | 40 hr |
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.