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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lincoln, IL

September 7, 2016Peoria County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this special weather statement at Sep 7, 2016, 10:11 PM CDT for Peoria County, Illinois. It was in force for 49 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, 10:11 PM CDT (03:11 UTC)
Expired
Sep 7, 2016, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Lincoln, IL

County Peoria County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 119 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 2016-09-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 378 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 2016-09-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 161 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
378 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
762 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
161 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
190 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.4

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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, 9:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 9:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 7, 3:04 PM CDT, 7 hours 7 minutes before
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

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 7, 10:20 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILXFulton, Knox, Peoria3 hr

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Special Weather Statements in Illinois, 2016Every special weather statement in 2016

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