Alert archive / Illinois / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Mar 10, 1990, 12:11 PM CST for Peoria County, Illinois. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 1990, 12:11 PM CST (18:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 1990, 1:15 PM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Peoria 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
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 423 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
- 859 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 674 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPIA 101811
FFWPIA
ILC143-101915-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
1211 PM CST SAT MAR 10 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
NORTHEAST PEORIA
AT NOON SPOTTERS REPORTED HEAVY RAIN AT CHILLICOTHE IN NORTHEASTERN
PEORIA COUNTY...20 MILES NORTHEAST OF PEORIA. SPOTTERS INDICATED
THAT WATERS WERE RISING IN LOW LYING AREAS AND THAT SMALL STREAMS
AND CREEKS WERE RISING RAPIDLY.
THE THUNERSTORM PRODUCING THE HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
STAY OUT OF DRY CREEK BEDS AND GLOW LYING AREAS. FLASH FLOODS CAN
OCCUR WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE OVER ROADS COVERED BY FLOOD WATERS.
ATTN ISP DIST 8
NADOLSKIWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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, Mar 10, 7:37 AM CST, 4 hours 34 minutes before
ILZ005-007-009-101500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA, IL 740 AM CST SAT MAR 10 1990 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE ACCOMPANIED WITH BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 30 MPH. AT 730 AM CST THE PUBLIC REPORTED PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN MASON COUNTY OVER TOPEKA AND FORREST CITY. SCATTERED SH7OWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DURING THIS MORNING INTO TONIGHT. STUMETZ
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 9:38 AM CST, 2 hours 33 minutes before
ILZ005-006-007-009-101500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA, IL 940 AM CST SAT MAR 10 1990 NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS NORTH OF A LINE FROM NAUVOO EXTENDING EAST TO DANVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MPH. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE ACCOMPANIED WITH HEAVY RAINFALL... FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS THE REMAINDER OF TODAY INTO TONIGHT. STUMETZ
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 9:39 AM CST, 2 hours 32 minutes before
ILZ005-006-007-009-101800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA, IL 940 AM CST SAT MAR 10 1990 NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS NORTH OF A LINE FROM NAUVOO EXTENDING EAST TO DANVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MPH. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE ACCOMPANIED WITH HEAVY RAINFALL... FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS THE REMAINDER OF TODAY INTO TONIGHT. STUMETZ
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 11:14 AM CST, 57 minutes before
ILZ009-010-101800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 1110AM CST SAT MAR 10 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 400PM THIS AFTERNOON... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM QUINCY...TO SPRINGFIELD...TO THE INDIANA BORDER JUST NORTH OF TERRE HAUTE...UNTIL 400PM CST. AT 1105AM CST...RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN ILLINOIS...NORTH OF A LINE FROM BURLINGTON IOWA...TO 20 MILES EAST OF BLOOMINGTON. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER EASTERN ILLINOIS...IN CHAMPAIGN...VERMILION...AND NORTHERN EDGAR COUNTIES...THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF DANVILLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY PWINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. WAGNER ATTN ISP DISTS...9...10...6...
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 11:31 AM CST, 40 minutes before
ILZ005-006-007-009-101830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT..CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA, IL 1130 AM CST SAT MAR 10 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 400 PM... AT 1130 AM CST THIS SATURDAY MORNING AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED OVER NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS NORTH OF A LINE FROM BURLINGTON IOWA TO ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF PEORIA TO NEAR FAIRBURY ABOUT 40 MILES EAST OF PEORIA. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT TEN MILES NORTHEAST OF PEORIA. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH. THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS REPORTS OF PEA SIZE HAIL WITH THIS STORM. ALSO HALF INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED AT CHILLICOTHE ABOUT 1n0 MILES NORTHEAST OF PEORIA. ARMBRUST
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 12:02 PM CST, 9 minutes before
ILZ009-010-101900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 1201PM CST SAT MAR 10 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 400PM THIS AFTERNOON... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM QUINCY...TO SPRINGFIELD...TO THE INDIANA BORDER JUST NORTH OF TERRE HAUTE...UNTIL 400PM CST. AT NOON CST...RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN ILLINOIS...NORTH OF A LINE FROM MACOMB...TO 20 MILES NORTH OF BLOOMINGTON...TO NEAR DANVILLE. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS WERE IN THE NORTHERN HALF OF VERMILION COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMSC IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. WAGNER ATTN ISP DISTS...9...10...6...
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 12:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria | 30 min |
| Mar 10, 1:06 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Marshall, Woodford | 2 hr |
| Mar 10, 1:26 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Marshall, Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford | 2 hr |
| Mar 10, 1:26 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | McLean | 2 hr |
| Mar 10, 4:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Hancock, McDonough, Schuyler | 51 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Illinois, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990
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.