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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this special weather statement at Sep 11, 2015, 1:08 AM CDT for Morgan County, Illinois. It was in force for 52 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
- Sep 11, 2015, 1:08 AM CDT (06:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2015, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
County Morgan County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -296 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1247 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 Sep 10, 6:25 PM CDT, 6 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 10, 6:25 PM CDT, 6 hours 43 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 10, 3:12 PM CDT, 9 hours 56 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 312 PM CDT THU SEP 10 2015 ILZ027>031-036>038-040>043-047>051-111100- CASS-DE WITT-FULTON-KNOX-LOGAN-MARSHALL-MASON-MCLEAN-MENARD- MORGAN-PEORIA-SANGAMON-SCHUYLER-SCOTT-STARK-TAZEWELL-WOODFORD- 312 PM CDT THU SEP 10 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE INTO THIS EVENING...AS A COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST. WHILE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED...A FEW OF THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL OR GUSTY WINDS...MAINLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THROUGH SUNSET. ILZ044>046-052>057-061-111100- CHAMPAIGN-CHRISTIAN-COLES-DOUGLAS-EDGAR-MACON-MOULTRIE-PIATT- SHELBY-VERMILION- 312 PM CDT THU SEP 10 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...AS A COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST. WHILE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED...A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL OR GUSTY WINDS. THIS WOULD BE MOST LIKELY WEST OF I-57. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY ANY LINGERING THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DIMINISH FRIDAY MORNING. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. ILZ062-063-066>068-071>073-111100- CLARK-CLAY-CRAWFORD-CUMBERLAND-EFFINGHAM-JASPER-LAWRENCE-RICHLAND- 312 PM CDT THU SEP 10 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AFTER MIDNIGHT...AS A COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST. AT THIS TIME...ANY THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER INTO FRIDAY. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. GEELHART
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 2:39 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 4 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.