719 FPUS73 KILX 181940 NOWILX SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 240 PM CDT WED SEP 18 2002 ILZ027>031-036>038-040>051-053-182100- CASS-CHAMPAIGN-DEWITT-FULTON-KNOX-LOGAN-MACON-MARSHALL-MASON-MCLEAN- MENARD-MORGAN-PEORIA-PIATT-SANGAMON-SCHUYLER-SCOTT-STARK-TAZEWELL- VERMILION-WOODFORD- .NOW... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS THIS AFTERNOON. THROUGH 4 PM...MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BE CONFINED TO LOCATIONS NORTH OF A CHAMPAIGN/URBANA TO HOOPESTON LINE. WEST OF INTERSTATE 55...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS WILL BRING HIT AND MISS RAIN THIS AFTERNOON. THE THREAT OF RAIN WILL PERSIST INTO THE EARLY PART OF THE EVENING. $$ PLAHMER