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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this high wind watch at Feb 22, 2019, 3:23 PM CST for 17 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Feb 24, 2019, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2019, 3:23 PM CST (21:23 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 24, 2019, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2019, 2:54 PM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
Counties Cass County, IL, Champaign County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Knox County, IL, Logan County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Mason County, IL, McLean County, IL, Menard County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Stark County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Woodford County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1804 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Feb 22, 3:22 PM CST, 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 3:22 PM CST, 1 minute before
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Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 3:23 PM CST | Wind Advisory | ILX | Cass, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 15 more | 51 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.