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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 15, 2015Edgar County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this special weather statement at Jun 15, 2015, 8:34 PM CDT for Edgar County, Illinois. It was in force for 41 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 15, 2015, 8:34 PM CDT (01:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2015, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL

County Edgar County, IL

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 98 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 125 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1025 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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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 Jun 15, 6:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 6:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 3:29 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
329 PM CDT MON JUN 15 2015

ILZ027>031-036>038-040>042-047-048-161100-
CASS-FULTON-KNOX-LOGAN-MARSHALL-MASON-MCLEAN-MENARD-PEORIA-
SCHUYLER-STARK-TAZEWELL-WOODFORD-
329 PM CDT MON JUN 15 2015

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING...

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

PERIODS OF THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED THIS EVENING THROUGH MUCH
OF THE NIGHT. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH
WILL PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING AND WORSEN AREAS OF RIVER FLOODING
ALREADY IN PROGRESS. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING STRONG WIND GUSTS.

MINOR TO MODERATE FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE ILLINOIS...SANGAMON
AND SPOON RIVERS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

PERIODIC THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE TUESDAY THROUGH
SUNDAY. THE POTENTIAL FOR ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE
THROUGH MUCH OF THIS WEEK...PARTICULARY THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY...
ENHANCING THE RIVER AND FLASH FLOOD THREATS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT. HOWEVER...REPORTS
OF WIND GUSTS...HEAVY RAINFALL OR FLOODING WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

ILZ043>046-049>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-161100-
CHAMPAIGN-CHRISTIAN-CLARK-CLAY-COLES-CRAWFORD-CUMBERLAND-DE WITT-
DOUGLAS-EDGAR-EFFINGHAM-JASPER-LAWRENCE-MACON-MORGAN-MOULTRIE-
PIATT-RICHLAND-SANGAMON-SCOTT-SHELBY-VERMILION-
329 PM CDT MON JUN 15 2015

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD THIS EVENING
AND OVERNIGHT. A FEW STORMS MAY CONTAIN DAMAGING WIND GUSTS ALONG
WITH THE THREAT FOR ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY PRODUCE
LOCALIZED FLOODING AND WORSEN AREAS OF RIVER FLOODING ALREADY IN
PROGRESS. MINOR FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE SANGAMON AND
WASBASH RIVERS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

PERIODIC THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE TUESDAY THROUGH
SUNDAY. THE POTENTIAL FOR ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE
THROUGH MUCH OF THIS WEEK...PARTICULARY TUESDAY AND AGAIN THURSDAY
INTO FRIDAY... ENHANCING THE RIVER AND FLASH FLOOD THREATS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT. HOWEVER...REPORTS
OF WIND GUSTS...HEAVY RAINFALL OR FLOODING WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

MILLER

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 15, 7:58 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 15, 8:08 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 15, 8:34 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Effingham, Shelby	30 min
Jun 15, 7:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Schuyler	6 hr
Jun 15, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Moultrie, Shelby	29 min
Jun 15, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles, Cumberland	51 min
Jun 15, 7:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Woodford	32 min
Jun 16, 3:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	ILX	Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 8 more	40 hr
Jun 16, 12:05 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ILX	Fulton	68 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Illinois, 2015 Every special weather statement in 2015

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.