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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this freeze warning at Apr 8, 2022, 2:38 AM CDT for 12 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Apr 9, 2022, 2:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 2022, 2:38 AM CDT (07:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 9, 2022, 2:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2022, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
Counties Christian County, IL, Clay County, IL, Coles County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Richland County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Scott County, IL, Shelby County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 1131 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze warning 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 freeze warning went out at Apr 7, 11:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 11:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 9:34 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ILX | Marshall, Putnam | 3 days |
| Apr 8, 2:25 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | ILX | Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Effingham and 5 more | 23 hr |
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.