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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 26, 1989Logan County, Menard County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1989, 10:12 PM CDT for Logan County, Menard County, Illinois. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 1989, 10:12 PM CDT (03:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 1989, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Logan County, IL, Menard 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

Peoria Regional, IL (KPIA), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 66 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 7:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
 700 PM CDT MON JUN 26 1989

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 544 FOR A LARGE PART  OF
CENTRAL ILLINOIS IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT...

AT 700 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS
SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS FROM GALESBURG TO ABINGTON...ROSEVILLE...
BRANDINSVILLE AND COLCHESTER. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE EAST INTO WESTERN
MARSHALL...NORTHWEST PEORIA...FULTON AND SCHUYLER COUNTIES WITHIN THE
NEXT HOUR.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH.
.
THERE WAS NO SEVERE WEATHER INDICATED IN ILLINOIS AT THIS
TIME. HOWEVER...PERSONS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD
STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TELEVISION...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

HALL

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 8:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
810 PM CDT MON JUN 26 1989

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF
CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL MIDNIGHT...

AT 805 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND VERY DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF PEORIA...NEAR BRIMFIELD TO QUINCY.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE
AFFECTING THE CITY OF PEORIA WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR AND
LARGE HAIL.  STAY TUNED TO RADIO...}TELEVISION OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO
FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

J LAST

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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 9:48 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 10:03 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	McDonough	26 min
Jun 26, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Piatt	65 min

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1989 Every 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.