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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Lincoln, IL

March 8, 1990Fulton County, McDonough County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 1990, 5:03 PM CST for Fulton County, McDonough County, Illinois. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 8, 1990, 5:03 PM CST (23:03 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 1990, 5:35 PM CST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Fulton County, IL, McDonough 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 407 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: 612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 265 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 199 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPIA 082303
SVRPIA
ILC109-057-082345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
503 PM CST THU MAR 8 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
      CENTRAL MCDONOUGH...WESTERN FULTON

AT 500 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED ON RADAR JUST SOUTH
OF COLCHESTER...7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MACOMB.

THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

REPORTS OF PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED 2 MILES EAST OF
FANDON...10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MACOMB.

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT.

ATTN ISP DIAT 14

NADOLSKI

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, Mar 8, 4:54 PM CST, 9 minutes before

ILZ009-010-090000

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL
450 PM CST THU MAR 8 1989

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM TONIGHT...

AT 445 PM CST RADAR HAS INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF
JACKSONVILLE...30 MILES WEST OF SPRINGFIELD. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE
HEAVY RAIN, STRONG GUSTY WINDS, AND SMALL HAIL.
IT IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH AND IS EXPECTED TO REACH SPRINGFIELD
BY 515 PM.

RESIDENTS IN THE SPRINGFIELD AREA SHOULD KEEP ALERT OF THE CURRENT
CONDITIONS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES.

NELLEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 8, 3:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	McDonough, Schuyler	51 min
Mar 8, 4:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton, Mason	43 min
Mar 8, 4:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Fulton, Mason	53 min

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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.