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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Lincoln, IL

April 26, 2016Edgar County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 2016, 4:14 PM CDT for Edgar County, Illinois. It was in force for 29 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: Apr 26, 2016, 4:14 PM CDT (21:14 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2016, 4:43 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Edgar County, IL

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 26, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 449 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 792 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

423 
WUUS53 KILX 262114
SVRILX
ILC045-262200-
/O.NEW.KILX.SV.W.0022.160426T2114Z-160426T2200Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
414 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN EDGAR COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 413 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER PARIS...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  PARIS AND VERMILION. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AND CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY.
LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES LEADING KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN
HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3954 8770 3965 8777 3975 8753 3955 8753
TIME...MOT...LOC 2113Z 237DEG 5KT 3963 8765 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

ONTON

1 follow-up statement

887 
WWUS53 KILX 262143
SVSILX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
443 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2016

ILC045-262152-
/O.CAN.KILX.SV.W.0022.000000T0000Z-160426T2200Z/
EDGAR-
443 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN EDGAR COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
                
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 CANCELLED.  HOWEVER SMALL HAIL....
GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS
THUNDERSTORM. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT IN THE AREA
FOR HEAVY RAIN FROM THIS STORM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR
EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS.

LAT...LON 3954 8770 3965 8777 3975 8753 3955 8753
TIME...MOT...LOC 2139Z 237DEG 5KT 3965 8761 

$$

ONTON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 1:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Shelby	37 min
Apr 26, 2:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Moultrie	36 min
Apr 26, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles, Moultrie	45 min
Apr 26, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles, Edgar	24 min
Apr 26, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Edgar	39 min
Apr 26, 4:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Coles, Moultrie	3 hr
Apr 26, 4:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Edgar	3 hr
Apr 26, 4:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Clay	22 min
Apr 26, 5:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Lawrence, Richland	46 min
Apr 26, 5:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Crawford	40 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.