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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lincoln, IL

August 2, 2022Tazewell County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2022, 2:19 PM CDT for Tazewell County, Illinois. It was in force for 26 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: Aug 2, 2022, 2:19 PM CDT (19:19 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2022, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 30

County Tazewell County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 40 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -405 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1661 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 275 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 Aug 2, 12:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 12:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 2, 12:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 2, 12:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 2, 12:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 2, 1:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 2, 1:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 2, 2:02 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

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

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 1, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Lawrence, Richland	37 min
Aug 1, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Richland	29 min
Aug 1, 9:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Crawford, Jasper	4 hr
Aug 1, 9:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Clay, Richland	6 hr
Aug 1, 11:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Effingham	4 hr
Aug 2, 12:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay	25 min
Aug 2, 1:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Effingham, Jasper	32 min
Aug 2, 1:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay	16 min
Aug 2, 2:23 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ILX	Clay, Richland	13 days
Aug 2, 2:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Sangamon	47 min
Aug 2, 2:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILX	Crawford, Effingham, Jasper, Richland	9 hr
Aug 2, 3:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, Sangamon	52 min
Aug 2, 3:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Sangamon	3 hr
Aug 2, 3:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, Moultrie, Shelby	32 min
Aug 2, 4:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Christian, Coles, Cumberland, Shelby	8 hr
Aug 2, 5:07 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ILX	Lawrence	4 days
Aug 2, 5:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Crawford, Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper, Shelby	6 hr
Aug 2, 6:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Clay, Lawrence, Richland	6 hr
Aug 2, 6:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Logan, McLean, Tazewell	33 min
Aug 2, 7:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Christian, Macon, Sangamon, Shelby	6 hr
Aug 2, 7:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Peoria	43 min
Aug 2, 7:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Logan, McLean, Tazewell	4 hr
Aug 2, 7:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton, Logan, McLean, Mason, Peoria, Schuyler and 2 more	39 min
Aug 2, 8:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Logan, McLean, Mason, Menard, Tazewell and 1 more	48 min
Aug 2, 8:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford	2 hr
Aug 2, 8:38 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Tazewell, Woodford	116 min
Aug 2, 8:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, Logan, Menard, Sangamon	29 min
Aug 2, 8:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, DeWitt, Logan, Macon, Moultrie, Piatt	25 min
Aug 2, 9:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Moultrie	28 min
Aug 2, 9:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Christian	25 min
Aug 2, 9:24 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Logan, Macon, Moultrie, Piatt, Shelby	3 hr
Aug 2, 9:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Christian, Logan, Macon, Mason, Menard, Sangamon	3 hr
Aug 2, 9:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles, Cumberland, Effingham, Moultrie, Shelby	52 min
Aug 2, 10:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Coles, Moultrie, Shelby	3 hr
Aug 2, 10:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Clay, Richland	34 min
Aug 2, 12:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILX	Clay, Crawford, Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper, Lawrence and 2 more	6 hr
Aug 2, 2:53 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	ILX	Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles and 27 more	28 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.