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...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT LATE TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY EVENING FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... .SEVERAL ROUNDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PUSH SOUTHEAST ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL THROUGH EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS STARTING LATE TONIGHT AND CONTINUING THROUGH MONDAY EVENING. THIS AREA HAS ALREADY SEEN SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL OVER THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS WITH ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL INCREASING THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT. ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH LATE MONDAY NIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS...EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING AREAS...IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS...DE WITT...MACON...MCLEAN...MOULTRIE...PIATT AND SHELBY. IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...CHAMPAIGN...CLARK...COLES... CRAWFORD...CUMBERLAND...DOUGLAS...EDGAR AND VERMILION. IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS...CLAY AND EFFINGHAM. IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS... JASPER...LAWRENCE AND RICHLAND.

* FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH LATE MONDAY NIGHT

* SEVERAL ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED...THE FIRST AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING AND THEN THE SECOND LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON INTO MONDAY EVENING. A VERY MOIST AIRMASS WILL BE IN PLACE WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE MIDDLE TO UPPER 70S. THIS WILL ALLOW ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP TO PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN A VERY SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME.

* RAINFALL TOTALS IN THIS AREA WILL RANGE FROM 1 TO 2 INCHES WITH LOCAL 3 INCH AMOUNTS POSSIBLE WHERE STORMS TRAIN OVER THE SAME LOCATION. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OVER ALREADY SATURATED SOILS COULD QUICKLY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING.

* AFFECTED AREAS: CHAMPAIGN ... CLARK ... CLAY ... COLES ... CRAWFORD ... CUMBERLAND ... DE WITT ... DOUGLAS ... EDGAR ... EFFINGHAM ... JASPER ... LAWRENCE ... MACON ... MCLEAN ... MOULTRIE ... PIATT ... RICHLAND ... SHELBY ... VERMILION

Instructions:

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS MAY DEVELOP THAT LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. FLASH FLOODING IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION. YOU SHOULD MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS BE ISSUED.