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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 2016, 5:30 AM CDT for Sangamon County, Illinois. It was in force for 5 hr. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 28, 2016, 5:30 AM CDT (10:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2016, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Sangamon County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:32 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 7:00 AM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 2.28 | Sherman, IL | |
| Aug 28, 7:00 AM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 2.32 | W Sherman, IL | |
| Aug 28, 8:15 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 Ne Farmingdale, IL | PRAIRIE CREEK SPILLED OUT OF ITS BANKS, CAUSING WATER TO FLOW ACROSS ROUTE 125 JUST WEST OF ROUTE 97 NEAR FARMINGDALE. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 960 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1410 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted.
668
WGUS53 KILX 281030
FFWILX
ILC167-281530-
/O.NEW.KILX.FF.W.0027.160828T1030Z-160828T1530Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
530 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN SANGAMON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS...
* UNTIL 1030 AM CDT
* AT 529 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
SPRINGFIELD...SHERMAN...SPAULDING...CANTRALL...CAPITAL AIRPORT...
FARMINGDALE AND SALISBURY.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 55 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 101 AND 104.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WHEN YOU
CAN DO SO SAFELY.
&&
LAT...LON 3992 8974 3992 8971 3993 8970 3994 8963
3986 8955 3978 8978 3988 8986
$$
SHIMON1 follow-up statement
763
WGUS73 KILX 281327
FFSILX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
827 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2016
ILC167-281530-
/O.CON.KILX.FF.W.0027.000000T0000Z-160828T1530Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
SANGAMON-
827 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 AM CDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN SANGAMON COUNTY...
AT 823 AM CDT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED THAT PRAIRIE CREEK IS
OUT OF ITS BANKS AND FLOWING ACROSS ROUTE 125 JUST WEST OF ROUTE 97.
WHILE THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA, DOPPLER RADAR
INDICATES THAT AS MUCH AS 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN FELL EARLIER THIS
MORNING.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
SPRINGFIELD...SHERMAN...SPAULDING...CANTRALL...CAPITAL AIRPORT...
FARMINGDALE AND SALISBURY.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 55 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 101 AND 104.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING
SPOTS.
PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WHEN YOU
CAN DO SO SAFELY.
&&
LAT...LON 3992 8974 3992 8971 3993 8970 3994 8963
3986 8955 3978 8978 3988 8986
$$
BARNESThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 7:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILX | Macon, Piatt | 3 hr |
| Aug 27, 8:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Macon, Piatt | 6 hr |
| Aug 28, 5:10 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILX | Sangamon | 4 hr |
| Aug 28, 12:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Morgan, Sangamon, Scott | 118 min |
| Aug 28, 3:17 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILX | Knox | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 3:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Marshall, Peoria, Stark | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 6:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Richland | 46 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.