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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this special weather statement at May 28, 2016, 5:24 PM CDT for Fulton County, Illinois. It was in force for 36 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
- May 28, 2016, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2016, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
County Fulton County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 May 28, 2:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 2:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 248 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2016 ILZ027>031-036-037-040-041-291115- FULTON-KNOX-MARSHALL-MASON-PEORIA-SCHUYLER-STARK-TAZEWELL- WOODFORD- 248 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS...NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL APPROACH ILLINOIS FROM THE WEST LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO MID EVENING...DEVELOPING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS ESPECIALLY ALONG AND WEST OF THE ILLINOIS RIVER THROUGH DUSK. A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS ESPECIALLY FROM THE ILLINOIS RIVER WEST. BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING COULD ALSO OCCUR WITH THESE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AFTER A PERIOD OF DRY WEATHER SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL RETURN MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THROUGH 9 PM THIS EVENING. ILZ038-042>044-047>054-061-291115- CASS-CHRISTIAN-DE WITT-LOGAN-MACON-MCLEAN-MENARD-MORGAN-MOULTRIE- PIATT-SANGAMON-SCOTT-SHELBY- 248 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL MOVE EAST INTO CENTRAL ILLINOIS DURING THIS EVENING...DEVELOPING ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DURING LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME STRONG WITH SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ESPECIALLY FROM I-55 WEST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AFTER A PERIOD OF DRY WEATHER SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL RETURN LATER MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. ILZ045-046-055>057-062-063-066>068-071>073-291115- CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-CLAY-COLES-CRAWFORD-CUMBERLAND-DOUGLAS-EDGAR- EFFINGHAM-JASPER-LAWRENCE-RICHLAND-VERMILION- 248 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED THOUGH A FEW STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY BUT ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. AFTER A PERIOD OF DRY WEATHER SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL RETURN TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. 07
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
524 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2016
ILZ036-040-282300-
SCHUYLER-FULTON-
524 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FULTON COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM CDT...
AT 524 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
VERMONT...OR 15 MILES WEST OF LEWISTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CANTON...LEWISTOWN...CUBA...VERMONT...ST. DAVID...FAIRVIEW...IPAVA...TABLE
GROVE...DUNFERMLINE...BERNADOTTE...SMITHFIELD...BRYANT...MARIETTA...
ELLISVILLE...FIATT...LITTLE AMERICA AND DUNCAN MILLS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
&&
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR
WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS.
LAT...LON 4028 9045 4050 9045 4072 9022 4044 8993
4022 9045 4028 9050
TIME...MOT...LOC 2224Z 236DEG 35KT 4034 9043
07The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 4:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Schuyler | 26 min |
| May 28, 5:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Knox | 24 min |
| May 28, 6:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Fulton | 27 min |
| May 28, 6:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Tazewell | 31 min |
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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.