1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at May 16, 1:44 PM CST, 8 hours 31 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 244 PM CDT WED MAY 16 2001 18Z SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS FRONTAL BOUNDARY MAKING SLOW PROGRESS THRU NW PORTIONS OF CWA. SO FAR LITTLE FANFARE WITH FRONT DESPITE ABUNDANT MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY. APPEARS THAT LACK OF DEVELOPMENT SO FAR MAY BE DUE TO ATMOSPHERIC CAP AND WEAK CONVERGENCE ALONG BOUNDARY. STILL LOOKING AT POSSIBILITY OF TSRA ACRS AREA LATE THIS AFT AND EVE. WL NEED TO MONITOR TRENDS FOR ZONE ISSUANCE WORDING. FCST CHALLENGE THIS RUN WL CONT TO BE PCPN CHANCES. WL CONT TO SIDE CLOSER TO ETA SOLUTION THIS RUN. ONCE AGAIN MESO-SCALE FEATURES WL BE KEY TO FCST AND ETA IS USUALLY FAVORED WITH THIS SCENARIO. ALSO...AM A BIT LEARY OF AVN DEPICTION OF CONVECTIVELY GENERATED S/WVS AND THE AFFECT THEY HAVE ON FCST PARAMETERS. ALSO AGREE WITH ETA SHOWING FNT MOVING THRU AREA SLOWER LATE THU/ERLY FRI AS NUMEROUS WAVES ALONG FNT LIKELY TO STALL UP PROGRESS. S/WV ENERGY ALONG THE CANADIAN/U.S. BORDER HAS DONE AN EFFECTIVE JOB OF FLATTENING THE UPR RIDGE...WITH ZONAL FLOW DOMINATING ACRS WRN 2/3 OF CONUS. CURRENT BOUNDARY ACRS CRL IL IS EXPECTED TO STALL OUT ACRS OUR AREA LATER TODAY AS IT BECOMES NEARLY PARALLEL WITH UPR LVL FLOW. AFT THE POSSIBILITY OF LATE AFT/EVE CONVECTION...FOCUS WL SHIFT TO NOCTURNAL CONVECTION CHANCES...AS 850 LLJ FOCUSES ACTIVITY ALONG BOUNDARY ACRS KS/MO. CHANCY POPS STILL LOOK GOOD...ESP SW CWA...AS THIS CONVECTION TRACKS EWRD TOWARD REGION OVERNIGHT. NEXT IN SERIES OF S/WVS IS EXPECTED TO TRACK EWRD THRU NRN PLAINS TONIGHT. THIS WILL BRING A CF TOWARD IL BY THU AFT. LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT POSSIBILITY OF S/WV/OUTFLOW BOUNDARY INTERACTIONS WITH EARLIER CONVECTION...BUT OMEGA/CONVERGENCE FIELDS AND INSTABILITY PARAMETERS IMPRESSIVE AND GOING 50 POPS LOOK WARRENTED. BASED ON ETA TIMING OF THE FRONT...WL NEED TO EXTEND PCPN CHANCES THRU THE NIGHT NW 1/2 OF CWA...AND KEEP MENTION IN SE MUCH OF THE DAY FRI. EXTENDED STILL LOOKS ON TRACK AT THIS POINT. BEST PCPN CHANCES CONFINED TO MON AND TUE AS MRF AGAIN SHOWS VIGOROUS S/WV CARVING OUT ACRS THE NATION/S MID-SECTION. ...PRELIMINARY CCF FOR COORDINATION PURPOSES ONLY... SPI TB 070/086 061/076 055 81452 PIA TB 068/086 059/075 053 81351 DEC TB 069/088 060/076 054 81452 CMI EB 068/089 060/076 053 81343 MTO EB 069/089 064/081 056 81344 LWV EB 069/089 066/083 056 81344 .ILX...NONE. K$$ PLAHMER
ILZ044>046-054>057-062-063-067-068-072-073-170115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 755 PM CDT WED MAY 16 2001 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 8 PM... ALTHOUGH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA OVERNIGHT...NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. THEREFORE... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIREu AT 8 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... CHAMPAIGN...VERMILION...PIATT...MOULTRIE...DOUGLAS...EDGAR... COLES...CUMBERLAND...CLARK...JASPER...CRAWFORD...RICHLAND... AND LAWRENCE. FRIEDERS
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 125 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:12 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Over 2 inches of rain fell, resulting in street flooding in Paris. Several cars became stranded in the flood waters, but no injuries were reported.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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