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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this special weather statement at Mar 28, 2020, 12:55 AM CDT for Christian County, Illinois. It was in force for 50 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
- Mar 28, 2020, 12:55 AM CDT (05:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2020, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
County Christian County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 626 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 85 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 383 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Mar 28, 12:52 AM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 12:52 AM CDT, 3 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Mar 28, 12:55 AM 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 |
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| Mar 28, 10:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Morgan, Sangamon | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 10:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Sangamon | 50 min |
| Mar 28, 11:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon | 41 min |
| Mar 28, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Douglas, Moultrie, Piatt | 50 min |
| Mar 28, 12:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas, Edgar, Vermilion | 49 min |
| Mar 28, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Edgar | 19 min |
| Mar 28, 3:21 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | ILX | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Cumberland and 24 more | 28 hr |
| Mar 28, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 25 min |
| Mar 28, 5:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Knox | 37 min |
Nearby
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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.