Alert archive / Illinois / Flood Watches in 2024
Flood Watch 4, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flood watch at Jul 8, 2024, 1:52 AM CDT for 22 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Jul 9, 2024, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 19 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2024, 1:52 AM CDT (06:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 9, 2024, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2024, 5:10 AM CDT
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Flood severity
- None
All 22 counties
Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, McLean County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Richland County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Vermilion County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 567 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood 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 flood watch went out at Jul 7, 6:31 PM CDT, 7 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 6:31 PM CDT, 7 hours 21 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 7, 3:06 PM CDT, 10 hours 46 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lincoln IL 306 PM CDT Sun Jul 7 2024 ILZ027>031-036-037-040-041-047>050-082015- Knox-Stark-Peoria-Marshall-Woodford-Fulton-Tazewell-Schuyler-Mason- Cass-Menard-Scott-Morgan- 306 PM CDT Sun Jul 7 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Illinois and west central Illinois. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Scattered thunderstorms are expected this afternoon into tonight. There is potential for an isolated strong to severe storm capable of producing damaging wind gusts or large hail, mainly near and west of the Illinois River. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Isolated to scattered thunderstorms are possible again Monday and Monday night, but the potential for severe weather and heavy rainfall is low. Tuesday into Wednesday post-tropical depression Beryl may track into Illinois, bringing the potential for heavy rainfall and strong winds over 30 mph. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated tonight. ILZ038-042>046-051>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-082015- McLean-Logan-De Witt-Piatt-Champaign-Vermilion-Sangamon-Christian- Macon-Moultrie-Douglas-Coles-Edgar-Shelby-Cumberland-Clark-Effingham- Jasper-Crawford-Clay-Richland-Lawrence- 306 PM CDT Sun Jul 7 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Illinois, east central Illinois and southeast Illinois. .DAY ONE...Tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Isolated to scattered thunderstorms are possible Monday and Monday night, but the potential for severe weather and heavy rainfall is low. Tuesday into Wednesday post-tropical depression Beryl may track into Illinois, bringing the potential for heavy rainfall and strong winds over 30 mph. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated tonight. Deubelbeiss
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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.