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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this special weather statement at Sep 7, 2016, 4:28 PM CDT for 4 counties in Illinois. It was in force for 47 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
- Sep 7, 2016, 4:28 PM CDT (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2016, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
Counties Fulton County, IL, Knox County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Stark County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 425 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -281 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1161 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
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 Sep 7, 2:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 2:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 304 PM CDT WED SEP 7 2016 ILZ027>031-081100- KNOX-MARSHALL-PEORIA-STARK-WOODFORD- 304 PM CDT WED SEP 7 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT HEAT INDEX VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO BE AROUND 100 DEGREES THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...ALTHOUGH AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA THIS EVENING...AND MAY PRODUCE SOME STRONG WIND GUSTS AS WELL. ANY OF THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY WHILE MUCH OF THURSDAY WILL BE DRY...MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY FROM THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO EXPECTED...WHICH MAY RESULT IN AREAS OF FLOODING. THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE BACK INTO THE AREA ON TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THROUGH 6 PM. ILZ036>038-040>042-047-048-081100- CASS-FULTON-LOGAN-MASON-MCLEAN-MENARD-SCHUYLER-TAZEWELL- 304 PM CDT WED SEP 7 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO BE AROUND 100 DEGREES. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON NORTHWEST OF THE ILLINOIS RIVER...WITH ADDITIONAL STORMS MOVING IN THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY CONTAIN LOCALLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...BUT THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS LOW. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE AT TIMES. MINOR FLOODING ALONG THE ILLINOIS RIVER WILL CONTINUE TO SUBSIDE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY AFTER A PERIOD OF DRY WEATHER THURSDAY AFTERNOON...MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY FROM THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO EXPECTED...WHICH MAY RESULT IN AREAS OF FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING. ILZ043>046-049>057-061-081100- CHAMPAIGN-CHRISTIAN-COLES-DE WITT-DOUGLAS-EDGAR-MACON-MORGAN- MOULTRIE-PIATT-SANGAMON-SCOTT-SHELBY-VERMILION- 304 PM CDT WED SEP 7 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS...EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO BE AROUND 100 DEGREES. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS EVENING... CONTINUING THROUGH TONIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE... BUT SEVERE WEATHER IS CURRENTLY NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY PERIODIC THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FROM FROM THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...WITH A FEW STORMS LINGERING OVER EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS EARLY SATURDAY. THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO EXPECTED...WHICH MAY RESULT IN AREAS OF FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. ILZ062-063-066>068-071>073-081100- CLARK-CLAY-CRAWFORD-CUMBERLAND-EFFINGHAM-JASPER-LAWRENCE-RICHLAND- 304 PM CDT WED SEP 7 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM 100 TO 105 DEGREES. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AFTER MIDNIGHT...MAINLY NEAR THE I-70 CORRIDOR. THESE ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY PERIODS OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FROM THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING. THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE AT TIMES...WHICH MAY RESULT IN AREAS OF FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. GEELHART
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Special weather statement, Sep 7, 4:28 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 5:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Fulton, Mason | 46 min |
| Sep 7, 5:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Woodford | 36 min |
| Sep 7, 5:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILX | Fulton, Mason, Schuyler | 116 min |
| Sep 7, 6:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Cass, Fulton, Mason, Schuyler | 3 hr |
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Special Weather Statements in Illinois, 2016Every special weather statement 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.