Alert archive / Illinois / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 1990, 11:15 AM CDT for 4 counties in Illinois. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1990, 11:15 AM CDT (16:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1990, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties McLean County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Woodford 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 401 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
- 52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -240 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPIA 291615
FFWPIA
ILC143-179-203-113-291915-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
1115 AM CDT FRI JUN 29 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
PEORIA...TAZEWELL...WOODFORD...MCLEAN
AT 1100 AM HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED OVER THE PEORIA AREA AND TAZEWELL
WOODFORD AND MCLEAN COUNTIES. MUCH STREET AND HIGHWAY FLOODING IS
OCCURING. ALSO WATER IS BEGINNING TO REACH THE BOTTOMS OF MANY
BRIDGE DECKS ON THE KICKAPOO CREEK IN PEORIA COUNTY AND ON THE
MACKINAW RIVER IN MCLEAN...WOODFORD AND TAZEWELL COUNTIES. THIS
COULD RESULT IN DAMMING OF WATER UPSTREAM FROM THESE BRIDGES AND
CAUSE SERIOUS FLASH FLOODING.
STAY OUT OF DRY CREEK BEDS AND LOW LYING AREAS. FLASH FLOODS CAN
OCCUR WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED COUNTY IN AN AREA SUBJECT TO FLOODING
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE OVER ROADS COVERED BY FLOOD WATERS.
THIS IS AN EXTENSION OF A WARNING WHICH WAS ISSUED EARLIER FOR
THE SAME COUNTIES.
ATTN ISP 8... 6
ARMBRUST
>What 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, Jun 29, 5:15 AM CDT, 6 hours before
ILZ009-291100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 515 AM CDT FRI JUN 29 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 5 AM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM DANVILLE TO CHAMPAIGN TO BURLINGTON IOWA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE SOUTH OF PERORIA IN FULTON AND TAZEWELL COUNTIES. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PERSONS IN LOGAN COUTY WILL EXPERIENCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG WINDS WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. PERSON IN MENARD COUNTY CAN EXPECT THESE STORMS BETWEEN 6 AND 7 AM CDT THIS MORNING. FENLEY ATTN ISP DIST...9
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 5:28 AM CDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before
ILZ005-006-007-009-291130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 530 AM CDT FRI JUN 29 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THIS MORNING... AT 525 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS JUST NORTH OF MACOMB...OVER LEWISTON AND JUST EAST OF DELAVAN. ELSEWHERE A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WAS OVER THE NORTHERN THIRD OF ILLINOIS. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. HEAVY RAINFALL WITH THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE SOME FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS CULVERTS...AND SMALL STREAMS. AT 530 PM NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED. STUMETZ
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 5:32 AM CDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
ILZ005-006-007-009-291130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 530 AM CDT FRI JUN 29 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THIS MORNING... AT 525 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS JUST NORTH OF MACOMB...OVER LEWISTON AND JUST EAST OF DELAVAN. ELSEWHERE A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WAS OVER THE NORTHERN THIRD OF ILLINOIS. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. HEAVY RAINFALL WITH THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE SOME FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS CULVERTS...AND SMALL STREAMS. AT 530 AM NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED. STUMETZ
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 5:42 AM CDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
ILZ005-006-007-009-291135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 540 AM CDT FRI JUN 29 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS IS CANCELLED... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THIS MORNING... AT 530 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE WITHIN A LARGE OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN COVERING THE NORTHERN THIRD OF ILLINOIS. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. HEAVY RAINFALL COULD CAUSE SOME FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS CULVERTS...AND SMALL STREAMS. STUMETZ
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 6:31 AM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
ILZ005-006-007-009-291230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 630 AM CDT FRI JUN 29 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAIN IN THE PEORIA AREA... AT 6:25 AM... A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED FROM HAVANA THROUGH PEORIA TO ABOUT LACON... ROUGHLY ALONG THE ILLINOIS RIVER. RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING EAST OF THAT LINE BUT THE STORMY WEATHER WAS ENDING TO THE WEST. THERE WAS NO PRECIPITATION INDICATED BY RADAR OVER KNOX AND WARREN COUNTIES TO THE NORTHWEST OF PEORIA. RAINFALL IS HEAVY... AT PEORIA OVER AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 5AM. SOME BRIEF LOCAL URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING MAY OCCUR. THE AREA HAS BEEN MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH... SO THE PRECIPITATION AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD END ACROSS PEORIA ABOUT 7AM... AND WILL BE ENDING OVER MORTON AND EVENTUALLY BLOOMINGTON WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. JACOBS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Stephenson, Winnebago | 44 min |
| Jun 29, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Boone | 67 min |
| Jun 29, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeKalb, Ogle, Winnebago | 51 min |
| Jun 29, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Carroll, Ogle | 45 min |
| Jun 29, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeKalb, Lee | 53 min |
| Jun 29, 2:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Bureau, Putnam | 69 min |
| Jun 29, 7:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | McLean, Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 9:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | McLean, Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford | 115 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.