Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Lincoln, IL

Issued

Jul 29, 1986, 3:53 AM CDT (08:53 UTC)

Expired

Jul 29, 1986, 5:00 AM CDT

In force

67 min

Issued by

NWS Lincoln, IL

Area

Whole counties

Counties Christian County, IL, Montgomery County, IL

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

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TTAA00 KSPI 290853
SVRSPI
ILC021-135-291000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL
353 AM CDT TUE JUL 29 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES OF

CENTRAL ILLINOIS...CHRISTIAN AND NORTHERN MONTGOMERY

AT 355AM, A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 15 MILES SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD
NEAR PAWNEE. IT WAS MOVING RAPIDLY TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 40 TO 50
MPH. AS THESE STORMS MOVED THROUGH MORGAN AND SANGAMON COUNTIES...
LARGE TREES WERE REPORTED UPROOTED BY HIGH WINDS. PERSONS IN
VULNERABLE AREAS SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONS FOR HIGH WINDS.

REMEMBER..A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCES DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS THAT CAN
QUICKLY FLOOD A LOW LYING AREA.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...YOU SHOULD GO TO A SAFE PLACE.
ASK rTHE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR REPORT OF
SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

 ATTN ISP DIST..9 18
 FS

In the hours before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL
235 AM CDT TUE JUL 29 1986

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 426 IN EFFECT UNTIL 6AM CDT...
...THUNDERSTORMS PASSING THROUGH CASS AND MORGAN COUNTIES...
AT 230 AM CDT THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS WERE
PASSING THROUGH THE CENTRAL ILLINOIS COUNTIES OF CASS AND MORGAN.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED SOMEWHAT IN INTENSITY DURING THE
LAST HOUR..AS THEY PASSED THROUGH RUSHVILLE IN SCHUYLER COUNTY, THEY
PRODUCED WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH.

PERSONS IN CASS AND MORGAN COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN ON THE ALERT, HOWEVER,
FOR THE CHANCE OF REINTENSIFICATION. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING
TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH. :THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE IN
WESTERB SANGAMON AND MACOUPIN COUNTIES BY 4AM.

FS

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
245 AM CDT TUE JUL 29 1986

...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR COUNTIES IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS...

THE TORNADO WATCH FOR THE NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS COUNTIES OF KNOX..
WARREN..HENDERSON..HANCOCK..MC DONOUGH..FULTON..AND SCHUYLER WAS
CANCELLED AT 230 AM CDT.

THE LINE OF SEVERE STORMS THAT MOVED THROUGH THESE COUNTIES HAD
WEAKENED AND MOVED TO BETWEEN SPRINGFIELD AND QUINCY ILLINOIS
AT 230 AM.

A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSHOWERS AND RAIN WAS OVER NORTH CENTRAL
ILLINOIS FROM MOLINE TO BETWEEN PEORIA AND BLOOMINGTON TO
SPRINGFIELD.  THE WESTERN EDGE WAS ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

THE LINE OF SEVERE STORMS PRODUCED DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 TO 70 MPH
WINDS AT KEOKUK IOWA AND HAMILTON ILLINOIS JUST ACROSS THE RIVER

FROM KEOKUK AT AROUND 100 AM.  CONSIDERABLE INTERRUPTION TO
POWER DUE TO DOWNED TREE LIMBS WAS REPORTED.

50 TO 60 MPH WINDS CONTINUED THROUGH CARTHAGE ILLINOIS AND
RAEACHED MACOMB JUST BEFORE 200 AM.  RUSHVILLE ILLINOIS REPORTED
50 MPH WINDS AT 222 AM.

ATTN ISP DISTS..7..8..9..14..AND 20

PALMER

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.