Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Lincoln, IL

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WWUS53 KILX 042316
SVSILX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
616 PM CDT FRI SEP 4 2015

ILC115-139-147-042326-
/O.EXP.KILX.SV.W.0129.000000T0000Z-150904T2315Z/
PIATT-MOULTRIE-MACON-
616 PM CDT FRI SEP 4 2015

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN PIATT...NORTHERN
MOULTRIE AND EAST CENTRAL MACON COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.  HOWEVER SMALL
HAIL....GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS
THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3962 8860 3979 8883 3989 8863 3978 8847
      3976 8847
TIME...MOT...LOC 2314Z 047DEG 4KT 3979 8864 

$$

ONTON

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
309 PM CDT FRI SEP 4 2015

.UPDATE...
ISSUED AT 309 PM CDT FRI SEP 4 2015

BASED ON BETTER AGREEMENT WITH THE NEW 18Z RUNS AND A COUPLE MORE
HIGH RESOLUTION MODELS ON A WAVE OF ENERGY REACHING OUR NORTHWEST
COUNTIES LATER TONIGHT, WE OPTED TO INCLUDE SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR
STORMS NW OF THE ILLINOIS RIVER FROM 10Z/5AM TO 15Z/10AM SATURDAY
MORNING. INSTABILITY PARAMS ARE SHOWING SUFFICIENT ELEVATED
INSTABILITY TO SUPPORT UPDRAFTS CAPABLE OF THUNDER AND BRIEF HEAVY
DOWNPOURS UNDER THE SLOW MOVING CELLS.

&&

.SHORT TERM...(TONIGHT)
ISSUED AT 248 PM CDT FRI SEP 4 2015

2 PM SURFACE ANALYSIS INDICATING A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY STRETCHING
FROM NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA NORTHWEST THROUGH NORTHEAST ILLINOIS.
ENOUGH LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE COMBINED WITH MIXED LAYER CAPES OF
AROUND 2500 J/KG AND 500 MB TEMPS OF AROUND -10 DEGREE C TO PRODUCE
SOME ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF THE
FORECAST AREA. ONCE AGAIN...AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES HAVE SOARED INTO
THE LOW TO MID 90S...BUT THANKFULLY THE DEW POINTS HAVE MIXED DOWN
INTO THE MID AND UPPER 60S BRINGING HEAT INDEX VALUES BACK TO THE
95 TO 100 DEGREE RANGE. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE
INTO THE EARLY EVENING WITH THE BETTER CHANCES ACROSS THE EAST WHERE
THEY WILL BE A BIT CLOSER TO THE SURFACE BOUNDARY AND COOLER TEMPS
ALOFT. OTHERWISE, ANOTHER WARM NIGHT WITH A LIGHT WIND WHICH COULD
BRING ABOUT SOME PATCHY FOG/HAZE TO OUR EAST AND SOUTHEAST,
ESPECIALLY ANY AREA THAT RECEIVES SOME RAINFALL LATE THIS AFTERNOON
INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. A FEW OF THE MODELS DEPICT A WEAK SHORTWAVE
TOPPING THE 500 MB RIDGE TO OUR NORTHWEST OVER NORTHEAST IOWA LATE
TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING WITH SOME WIDELY SCATTERED CONVECTION
ASSOCIATED WITH THE FEATURE. AT THIS TIME, WITH 500 MB HEIGHTS
BUILDING OVER OUR AREA AND THE BETTER FORCING ASSOCIATED WITH THE
LOW LEVEL JET WELL OUT TO OUR WEST, WILL NOT INCLUDE ANY POPS IN OUR
NORTHWEST AT THIS TIME.

.LONG TERM...(Saturday THROUGH Friday)
ISSUED AT 248 PM CDT FRI SEP 4 2015

THE UPPER LOW OVER MICHIGAN/OHIO WHICH TRIGGERED ISOLATED SHOWERS
AND STORMS TODAY WILL GRADUALLY DISSIPATE SATURDAY MORNING. THE GFS
APPEARS OVERLY AGGRESSIVE WITH GENERATING PRECIP NEAR THAT LOW
ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF ILLINOIS LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY SATURDAY
MORNING. THE ARW-EAST SHOWS A WAVE APPROACHING LATE TONIGHT, BUT
MOST MODELS KEEP OUR AREA DRY AT THE START OF THE DAY ON SATURDAY.
WILL CONTINUE WITH A DRY MORNING AND ISOLATED PRECIP CHANCES
SATURDAY AFTERNOON NORTHEAST OF BMI TO CMI/DANVILLE. IN GENERAL,
MOST AREAS SHOULD REMAIN HOT AND DRY ON SATURDAY, WITH HIGHS IN THE
90-95F RANGE AND HEAT INDICES INTO THE 95-101 RANGE.

THE UPPER RIDGE IN THE PLAINS WILL BUILD EASTWARD INTO IL LATER
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, WITH ANOTHER HOT AND DRY DAY SUNDAY. TEMPS AND
HEAT INDICES WILL BE VERY SIMILAR TO SATURDAY.

THE NEXT CONCERN FOR THE EXTENDED FORECAST IS THE MAJOR PATTERN
CHANGE FOR NEXT WEEK. WE ARE SEEING SOME BETTER AGREEMENT IN THE
TIMING OF THE INITIAL PUSH OF COOLER AIR, WITH A CONTINUED SLOWING
TREND WITH THE 12Z MODELS. THE INITIAL COLD FRONT IS PROJECTED TO BE
IN A DISSIPATING STATE AS IT MOVES INTO NW IL LATE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO
MONDAY. WE ACKNOWLEDGED THE SLOWER PROGRESS OF THE FRONT ON MONDAY
BY KEEPING POPS MAINLY WEST OF I-55 UNTIL AFTERNOON, WITH AREAS EAST
OF SHELBYVILLE TO CHAMPAIGN MOST LIKELY REMAINING DRY UNTIL MONDAY
NIGHT. THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL BECOME PARALLEL TO THE UPPER FLOW
AND WILL STALL ACROSS THE AREA...KEEPING CHANCE POPS IN THE FORECAST
MONDAY NIGHT.

THERE IS ALSO GOOD AGREEMENT IN THE EXTENDED MODELS ABOUT A STRONGER
SHORTWAVE PROGRESSING ALONG THE FRONT TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT,
AFFECTING OUR FORECAST AREA WITH MORE WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND STORMS.
THEREFORE, WE HAVE OPTED TO INCREASE POPS TO LIKELY NW OF I-55 ON
TUESDAY, AND SURROUNDING THE I-72 CORRIDOR TUESDAY NIGHT. WE KEPT
THE CHANCE POPS ON WEDNESDAY, BUT DEPENDING ON HOW THE WAVE
PROGRESSES, WE MAY NEED LIKELY POPS SOUTHEAST OF I-70 FOR WED
MORNING.

THE FRONT WILL EVENTUALLY DROP SOUTHWARD INTO THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY
ON THURSDAY...BUT A FEW SPOTTY INSTABILITY SHOWERS COULD BUBBLE UP
IN THE HEAT OF THE DAY, SO SLIGHT CHANCE POPS WERE INCLUDED IN ALL
BUT SE OF I-70, WHERE LOW CHANCE POPS WERE UTILIZED. THE COOLER
CONDITIONS WILL BECOME MORE PRONOUNCED ON THURSDAY, WITH HIGH
TEMPERATURES UPPER 70S. FRIDAY WILL BE COOL AND DRY, WITH HIGHS ONLY
IN THE MID TO UPPER 70S.

&&

.AVIATION...(FOR THE 18Z TAFS THROUGH 18Z Saturday AFTERNOON)
ISSUED AT 1205 PM CDT FRI SEP 4 2015

VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THRU MOST OF THIS FORECAST PERIOD.
ABOUT THE ONLY EXCEPTION WOULD BE IN THE 10Z-13Z TIME FRAME
WHEN SOME PATCHY FOG/HAZE MAY FORM IN A FEW LOCATIONS. SCATTERED
TO BROKEN MID LEVEL CLOUDS SEEN ON VISIBLE SATELLITE DATA EARLY
THIS AFTERNOON WITH SOME Scattered CUMULUS BELOW AT 4000-5000
FEET. LIGHT SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WERE REPORTED ACROSS THE AREA
LATE THIS MORNING INTO EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WITH LIGHT WINDS
EXPECTED OVER THE FORECAST AREA THROUGH TONIGHT. ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AT KBMI AND KCMI IN THE 20Z-01Z
TIME FRAME BUT COVERAGE AT THIS TIME APPEARS TO BE TOO LIMITED TO
INCLUDE IN TAFS.

&&

.ILX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&

UPDATE...Shimon
SHORT TERM...Smith
LONG TERM...Shimon
AVIATION...Smith

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
323 PM CDT FRI SEP 4 2015

ILZ027>031-036-037-040-041-051100-
FULTON-KNOX-MARSHALL-MASON-PEORIA-SCHUYLER-STARK-TAZEWELL-
WOODFORD-
323 PM CDT FRI SEP 4 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
ILLINOIS...NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WILL BE POSSIBLE EARLY THIS EVENING AND
THEN AGAIN TOWARDS DAWN ON SATURDAY. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS
EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 95 TO 100 ARE LIKELY THROUGH THE HOLIDAY
WEEKEND.

A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WILL BRING THE NEXT CHANCE FOR ORGANIZED
THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA...BEGINNING LATE SUNDAY NIGHT AND
CONTINUING THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT.

ILZ038-042>046-053>057-062-063-068-051100-
CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-COLES-CRAWFORD-CUMBERLAND-DE WITT-DOUGLAS-EDGAR-
LOGAN-MACON-MCLEAN-MOULTRIE-PIATT-VERMILION-
323 PM CDT FRI SEP 4 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
ILLINOIS AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

HEAT INDEX VALUES OF AROUND 100 ARE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON.

AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WILL BE POSSIBLE EARLY THIS EVENING.
ALTHOUGH NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED...A FEW OF THE
STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTNING AS WELL AS
HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS EAST OF
INTERSTATE 57.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 95 TO 100 ARE LIKELY THROUGH THE HOLIDAY
WEEKEND.

A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WILL BRING THE NEXT CHANCE FOR ORGANIZED
THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA...BEGINNING LATE SUNDAY NIGHT AND
CONTINUING THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT.

ILZ047>052-061-066-067-071>073-051100-
CASS-CHRISTIAN-CLAY-EFFINGHAM-JASPER-LAWRENCE-MENARD-MORGAN-
RICHLAND-SANGAMON-SCOTT-SHELBY-
323 PM CDT FRI SEP 4 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
ILLINOIS...SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS...SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS AND WEST
CENTRAL ILLINOIS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 95 TO 100 ARE LIKELY THROUGH THE HOLIDAY
WEEKEND.

A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WILL BRING THE NEXT CHANCE FOR ORGANIZED
THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA...BEGINNING LATE SUNDAY NIGHT AND
CONTINUING THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT.

SMITH