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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this special weather statement at May 30, 2016, 7:21 PM CDT for Champaign County, Illinois. It was in force for 24 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 30, 2016, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2016, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
County Champaign County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 22 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
- 369 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2065 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
306 WWUS83 KILX 310021 SPSILX SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 721 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016 ILZ045-310045- CHAMPAIGN- 721 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY UNTIL 745 PM CDT... AT 721 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR SEYMOUR...OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHAMPAIGN. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CHAMPAIGN...SAVOY...BONDVILLE...SADORUS AND WILLARD AIRPORT. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS... INTERSTATE 57 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 226 AND 233. INTERSTATE 72 NEAR MILE MARKER 178. 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. && LAT...LON 4004 8846 4013 8839 4005 8821 3992 8841 TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 306DEG 3KT 4003 8836 $$ ONTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 7:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Champaign | 13 min |
| May 31, 1:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall, Woodford | 33 min |
| May 31, 5:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Champaign | 3 hr |
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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.