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Flood Watch 3, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flood watch at Jul 11, 2025, 2:49 AM CDT for Knox County, Marshall County, Stark County, Illinois. It took effect at Jul 11, 2025, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 2025, 2:49 AM CDT (07:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 11, 2025, 4:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2025, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Knox County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Stark County, IL
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:49 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 2407 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1108 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 12.9
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 11, 12:06 AM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 12:06 AM CDT, 2 hours 43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 40 min |
| Jul 10, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Stark | 50 min |
| Jul 10, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall | 38 min |
Nearby
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.