Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1989, 2:39 PM CDT for Edgar County, Vermilion County, Illinois. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1989, 2:39 PM CDT (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1989, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Edgar County, IL, Vermilion County, IL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 302 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 370 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 860 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles | 29 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.