Alert archive / Illinois / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Feb 2, 2016, 6:19 PM CST for Champaign County, Piatt County, Illinois. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 2, 2016, 6:19 PM CST (00:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 2, 2016, 9:15 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Champaign County, IL, Piatt County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 12 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
- 1004 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 117 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
514
WGUS53 KILX 030019
FFWILX
ILC019-147-030315-
/O.NEW.KILX.FF.W.0001.160203T0019Z-160203T0315Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
619 PM CST TUE FEB 2 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
PIATT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS...
WESTERN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...
* UNTIL 915 PM CST
* AT 619 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE
WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
RANTOUL...MONTICELLO...MAHOMET...FISHER...BEMENT...CERRO GORDO...
ATWOOD...MANSFIELD...HAMMOND...DE LAND...BONDVILLE...WHITE HEATH...
LAKE OF THE WOODS...SEYMOUR...IVESDALE...CISCO...FOOSLAND...
LODGE...GALESVILLE AND DEWEY.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
INTERSTATE 72 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 157 AND 181.
INTERSTATE 74 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 162 AND 177.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3995 8843 3988 8845 3988 8846 3979 8846
3979 8874 4009 8874 4009 8868 4015 8867
4027 8856 4027 8845 4040 8846 4040 8815
$$
BARNES1 follow-up statement
442
WGUS73 KILX 030217
FFSILX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
817 PM CST TUE FEB 2 2016
ILC019-147-030227-
/O.CAN.KILX.FF.W.0001.000000T0000Z-160203T0315Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
PIATT-CHAMPAIGN-
817 PM CST TUE FEB 2 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR PIATT AND WESTERN CHAMPAIGN COUNTIES
IS CANCELLED...
THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED...AND FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE
A THREAT.
LAT...LON 3995 8843 3988 8845 3988 8846 3979 8846
3979 8874 4009 8874 4009 8868 4015 8867
4027 8856 4027 8845 4040 8846 4040 8815
$$
BAKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 6:38 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | ILX | Moultrie, Shelby | 3 hr |
| Feb 2, 6:50 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | ILX | Champaign | 3 hr |
| Feb 2, 7:09 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | ILX | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas and 21 more | 8 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Illinois, 2016Every flash flood warning in 2016
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.