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River Flood Warning 11, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 19, 2025Clay County, Richland County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this river flood warning at May 19, 2025, 8:39 PM CDT for Clay County, Richland County, Illinois. It took effect at May 20, 2025, 10:45 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 2025, 8:39 PM CDT (01:39 UTC)
In effect from: May 20, 2025, 10:45 PM CDT
Expired: May 20, 2025, 8:13 PM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Clay County, IL, Richland County, IL

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Little Wabash River below Clay City (CLAI2).

Action stage: 15 ft
Minor stage: 18 ft
Moderate stage: 22 ft
Major stage: 25 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03379500, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood 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 river flood warning went out at May 19, 6:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 6:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 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
May 19, 10:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ILX	Cass, Schuyler	46 min
May 19, 11:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Schuyler	23 min
May 20, 1:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Morgan	41 min
May 20, 1:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Morgan	43 min
May 20, 1:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cass, Menard, Sangamon	50 min
May 20, 2:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Menard, Sangamon	30 min
May 20, 2:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Sangamon	33 min
May 20, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Knox, Marshall, Peoria, Stark, Tazewell, Woodford	45 min
May 20, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Logan, Menard, Sangamon	44 min
May 20, 2:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	ILX	Logan, Sangamon	39 min
May 20, 3:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Logan, Macon, Sangamon	49 min
May 20, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	31 min
May 20, 3:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILX	Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford	2 hr
May 20, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	DeWitt, McLean	12 min
May 20, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, McLean	37 min
May 20, 3:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Macon, Piatt	36 min
May 20, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign	33 min
May 20, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	51 min
May 20, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Champaign, Piatt	48 min
May 20, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, McLean	12 min
May 20, 4:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	43 min
May 20, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	65 min
May 20, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	ILX	Vermilion	34 min
May 20, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	23 min
May 20, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	38 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.