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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lincoln, IL

October 19, 2016Crawford County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this special weather statement at Oct 19, 2016, 2:57 PM CDT for Crawford County, Illinois. It was in force for 18 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: Oct 19, 2016, 2:57 PM CDT (19:57 UTC)
Expired: Oct 19, 2016, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL

County Crawford County, IL

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1674 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 Oct 19, 2:51 PM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 19, 2:51 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 19, 11:59 AM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 19, 2:57 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
257 PM CDT WED OCT 19 2016

ILZ068-073-192015-
LAWRENCE-CRAWFORD-
257 PM CDT WED OCT 19 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY
UNTIL 315 PM CDT...

AT 257 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
NEAR PALESTINE...OR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROBINSON...MOVING EAST AT
40 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PALESTINE AND CRAWFORD COUNTY AIRPORT.

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 3889 8754 3888 8753 3886 8755 3885 8753
      3884 8763 3902 8767 3904 8758 3900 8758
      3899 8756 3899 8758 3897 8753 3896 8751
      3891 8753 3890 8752
TIME...MOT...LOC 1957Z 260DEG 37KT 3895 8756

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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.