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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 198, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2025, 5:32 AM CDT for Fulton County, Knox County, Illinois. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 2025, 5:32 AM CDT (10:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2025, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Fulton County, IL, Knox County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:34 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 2355 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1116 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 27, 6:05 PM CDT, 11 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 6:05 PM CDT, 11 hours 27 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 27, 2:15 PM CDT, 15 hours 17 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lincoln IL 215 PM CDT Sun Jul 27 2025 ILZ027>031-036>038-040>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-281915- Knox-Stark-Peoria-Marshall-Woodford-Fulton-Tazewell-McLean-Schuyler- Mason-Logan-De Witt-Piatt-Champaign-Vermilion-Cass-Menard-Scott- Morgan-Sangamon-Christian-Macon-Moultrie-Douglas-Coles-Edgar-Shelby- Cumberland-Clark-Effingham-Jasper-Crawford-Clay-Richland-Lawrence- 215 PM CDT Sun Jul 27 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Illinois, east central Illinois, southeast Illinois and west central Illinois. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Heat indices of 100 to 105 degrees are expected through early this evening. Isolated thunderstorms are expected into this evening, posing a risk for locally heavy rainfall. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Dangerously hot conditions persist through midweek with afternoon heat indices peaking between 100 and 115 degrees. The most oppressive heat will be on Monday and Tuesday. Isolated to scattered thunderstorms will be seen daily most of the week, with the highest chances being Wednesday into Thursday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated tonight. MJA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 8:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Piatt | 29 min |
| Jul 28, 5:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Fulton, Knox, Stark | 56 min |
| Jul 28, 1:18 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | ILX | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles and 25 more | 31 hr |
| Jul 28, 6:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ILX | Lawrence | 33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.