July 13-15 Rainfall

A slow-moving upper-level disturbance triggered scattered showers and thunderstorms across central and southeast Illinois from Friday, July 13th through Sunday, July 15th. While most areas picked up little or no rainfall, isolated spots received in excess of 2 inches! In particular, slow-moving thunderstorms dumped 2.50 southwest of Effingham, while other persistent storms produced similar amounts in Bloomington.

We would like to thank everyone for submitting their rainfall totals over the past couple of days. Given our ongoing severe drought and the scattered nature of the precipitation, reports of ZERO rainfall can also be quite helpful. With the storms over the weekend, there were many instances where one side of a certain community experienced a deluge, while just blocks away virtually nothing fell. A prime example would be in Lincoln, where we measured 1.20 here at the office 1 mile east of town, while a NWS employee who lives in Lincoln about two miles west of the weather office picked up only 0.02.

To view the July 13-15th SWOP rainfall map, please go to: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ilx/?n=swop-precip

July 13-15, 2012 Rainfall

City	County	Rainfall
Effingham 3SW	Effingham	2.50
Bloomington	McLean	2.30
Bloomington	McLean	2.28
Hopewell	Marshall	1.86
Neoga	Cumberland	1.85
Martinsville	Clark	1.82
Bloomington East	McLean	1.64
Wyoming 5NE	Stark	1.50
Martinsville 2NE	Clark	1.47
Ogden	Champaign	1.33
Peoria Heights	Peoria	1.24
Lincoln NWS	Logan	1.20
Neoga 2NE	Cumberland	1.02
Lane	DeWitt	1.00
Tuscola	Douglas	0.92
Peoria	Peoria	0.87
Newton	Jasper	0.78
Dunlap 2SE	Peoria	0.64
Newman 4SW	Douglas	0.61
Springfield	Sangamon	0.60
Morton	Tazewell	0.57
Mackinaw 1N	Tazewell	0.52
Lovington	Moultrie	0.49
Wataga	Knox	0.47
Henry	Marshall	0.46
Shelbyville	Shelby	0.45
Champaign	Champaign	0.43
Eureka	Woodford	0.40
Henry	Marshall	0.35
Gilson	Knox	0.34
Sumner	Lawrence	0.32
Mattoon	Coles	0.23
Normal	McLean	0.20
Pekin	Tazewell	0.20
Manito 1S	Mason	0.18
Mattoon	Coles	0.18
Centralia	Marion	0.18
Astoria	Fulton	0.16
Canton	Fulton	0.14
Olney 2S	Richland	0.14
Birds 2E	Lawrence	0.13
Bryant	Fulton	0.11
Trimble 1E	Crawford	0.11
Flora	Clay	0.10
Olney 4SW	Richland	0.10
Mattoon	Coles	0.10
Loxa	Coles	0.10
Brocton	Edgar	0.06
Normal	McLean	0.05
Robinson 3W	Crawford	0.05
Mt. Pulaski 3SW	Logan	0.04
Robinson 7NW	Crawford	0.03
Windsor 4NW	Shelby	0.03
Taylorville	Christian	0.03
Alma	Marion	0.03
Homer 2N	Champaign	0.02
Lincoln	Logan	0.02
Danville	Vermilion	0.01
Cisco 2NE	Piatt	T
Winchester	Scott	T
Galesburg	Knox	0.00
Greenview 3SE	Menard	0.00
Jacksonville	Morgan	0.00
Springfield (COOP)	Sangamon	0.00
Pana	Christian	0.00

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July 13-15 Rainfall