1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 13, 7:30 PM CST, 2 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 830 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 .DISCUSSION...MAKING SOME MINOR WORDING CHANGES TO GOING FCST WITH FIRST ROUND OF CONVECTION MAKING IT INTO SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS BEFORE DISSIPATING. NEXT ROUND OF STORMS INCREASING IN COVERAGE ACRS WRN IL AND TRACKING EWD. MSAS SHOWING BEST CONVERGENCE AND LI GRADIENT RIGHT ALONG COLD FRONT...WHICH AT 01Z WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR DUBUQUE SWWD THROUGH CEDAR RAPIDS TO WEST OF KIRKSVILLE. LAPS CAPES IN THE 2500-3000 J/KG RANGE OUT BY THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND THEN REALLY TAILS OFF AS YOU HEAD EAST INTO CNTRL IL. 00Z ILX SOUNDING NOT REAL IMPRESSIVE WITH FAIRLY DRY LOW LAYER. CONVECTION SEEMS TO GET INTO THE WRN THIRD OF OUR AREA AND THEN DISSIPATE AS IT TRACKS INTO A MORE STABLE AIR MASS. STILL SOME HAILERS AND ISOLD WIND GUSTS WITH THE STORMS ACRS OUR WEST THIS EVENING AND THEN THE CONVECTION SHOULD EDGE INTO OUR EAST OVERNIGHT. OTHER THAN THE WORDING ADJUSTMENTS TO THE FIRST PERIOD...REST OF FCST LOOKS FINE. .PREV DISCUSSION... GFS AND NAM REMAIN SIMILAR IN TIMING OF THIS FRONT COMING THROUGH THE AREA TONIGHT AND LOCATION OF FRONT AFTER IT PUSHES THROUGH THE AREA AND SOUTH OF THE STATE INTO THE OH RVR VLY. SINCE THIS FRONT AND PCPN IS THE MAIN CONCERN THIS PACKAGE IN THE SHORT TERM...WILL FOLLOW A BLEND OF THE MODELS. FURTHER OUT...A BLEND OF THE GFS/ECMWF/UKMET WILL BE FOLLOWED SINCE THEY RESEMBLE THE ENSEMBLE SOLUTION FROM THIS MORNING. SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY... AT 19Z...SFC FRONT EXTENDS FROM WI INTO IA...NWRN MO AND BACK INTO KS. STORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OUT AHEAD OF THE FRONT AND WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH INTO THE AREA DURING THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS. INITIAL LINE MOVING INTO WESTERN IL AT THE MOMENT...BUT EXPECT ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT LATER AS THE FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA DURING THE NIGHT. THEREFORE...HAVE INCREASED POPS TO LIKELY FOR THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. MDLS BRING FRONT THROUGH MOST OF AREA BY MORNING SO HAVE TAPERED PCPN DOWN TO SLIGHT CHANCE IN THE NORTH FOR THE MORNING AND CHANCE IN THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST. WILL CONTINUE TO TAPER DOWN TO CHANCE IN THE SOUTHEAST ONLY FOR TOM AFTERNOON. MDLS CONTINUE TO BRING A WAVE ALONG THE FRONT TOMORROW NIGHT AND THURSDAY WHICH WILL PUSH THE FRONT FURTHER SOUTH BY THE END OF THE WEEK. THEREFORE HAVE KEPT CHC POPS IN THE SOUTHEAST FOR TOM NIGHT AND THUR TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS. AFTER THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH...DRIER AND COOLER AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA AS CANADIAN HIGH PRSS BUILDS INTO THE REGION. TEMPS WILL BE COOLER FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK WITH THIS HI PRSS AND HAVE GONE A DEG OR TWO ABOVE GUIDANCE FOR THIS...ESPECIALLY DURING THE DAY. LONG TERM...SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW WILL DOMINATE THE REGION OVER THE WEEKEND AND INTO NEXT WEEK. ALONG WITH THIS...THERE COULD BE SOME WEAK WAVES MOVING UP THROUGH THE FLOW THAT COULD BRING SOME PCPN TO THE AREA. HOWEVER THERE IS SOME UNCERTAINTY AS TO WHEN...IF AT ALL...THIS WILL AFFECT OUR AREA. THEREFORE WILL KEEP CHC POPS IN FOR SAT NIGHT AND SUNDAY NIGHT...AND THEN SLIGHT CHANCE IN THE REMAINDER OF SOME OF THE PERIODS IN THE EXTENDED. WITH THE SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW...WARMER TEMPS WILL RETURN WITH 850 DEWPOINTS REACHING BACK TO +17 TO +19C BY THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK. HOWEVER...WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME PCPN AND CLOUD COVER...HAVE TEMPERED THIS WARM UP A BIT. STILL WENT ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS FOR MID SEPT. && .ILX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IL...NONE. SMITH/AUTEN
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 1137 AM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 ILZ027>031-036>038-040-041-141200- KNOX-STARK-PEORIA-MARSHALL-WOODFORD-FULTON-TAZEWELL-MCLEAN- SCHUYLER-MASON- 1137 AM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT AND UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL APPROACH THE REGION BY LATE TODAY AND MOVE THROUGH BY LATE TONIGHT. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A FEW OF THE STORMS THAT DEVELOP MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE HIGHEST BETWEEN 4 PM AND 8 PM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A DISTURBANCE WILL PASS THROUGH THE REGION LATE SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY...BRINGING A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH IT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY BETWEEN 4 PM AND 8 PM. ILZ042>057-061-141200- LOGAN-DE WITT-PIATT-CHAMPAIGN-VERMILION-CASS-MENARD-SCOTT-MORGAN- SANGAMON-CHRISTIAN-MACON-MOULTRIE-DOUGLAS-COLES-EDGAR-SHELBY- 1137 AM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT AND UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION TONIGHT AND EXIT TO THE SOUTH AND EAST BY MORNING. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT TONIGHT. A FEW OF THE STORMS THAT DEVELOP MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE HIGHEST BETWEEN 6 PM AND 10 PM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST INTO EARLY WEDNESDAY... LINGERING UNTIL THE FRONT SAGS FURTHER SOUTH AND EAST OF THE REGION. ANY REMAINING STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING...MAINLY BETWEEN 6 PM AND 10 PM. ILZ062-063-066>068-071>073-141200- CUMBERLAND-CLARK-EFFINGHAM-JASPER-CRAWFORD-CLAY-RICHLAND-LAWRENCE- 1137 AM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT AND UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION BY LATE TONIGHT...BRINGING A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH IT. ANY THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO STALL OUT TO THE SOUTH OF THE REGION THROUGH THURSDAY. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL PERSIST THROUGH THURSDAY UNTIL THE FRONT PUSHES WELL SOUTH AND EAST OF THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. HARDIMAN
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 101 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:29 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A downburst, 2 to 3 blocks wide, blew down numerous trees, power lines and tree limbs. Twelve homes were damaged (3 severely), and one garage was destroyed. All damage was caused by falling trees and not from the wind gusts.
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