Alert archive / Illinois / Flood Watches in 2013
Flood Watch 3, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flood watch at Dec 19, 2013, 3:54 AM CST for 18 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Dec 21, 2013, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 19, 2013, 3:54 AM CST (09:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 21, 2013, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 21, 2013, 11:40 PM CST
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Macon County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Richland County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Vermilion County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 1626 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 806 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 827 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Dec 19, 3:43 AM CST, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 19, 3:43 AM CST, 11 minutes before
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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.