Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1990, 5:12 PM CDT for Hancock County, Illinois. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1990, 5:12 PM CDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1990, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hancock 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 413 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
- 2508 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 783 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 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 162212
SVRPIA
ILC067-162300-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
512 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
NORTHERN HANCOCK
AT 510 PM CDT HANCOCK COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED 60 TO 70 MPH WINDS
AT THE NAUVOO STATE PARK...25 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF BURLINGTON.
ONE-HALF INCH HAIL WAS ALSO REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. MOVEMENT WAS
TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORMS INCLUDE POWELLTON...COLUSA AND
LA HARPE.
IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM..GO TO A REINFORECED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND LIGHTNING.
THIS SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS
AND UNDERPASSES.
ATTN ISP...DIST 14
MILLERWhat 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 16, 1:56 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
ILZ009-162000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 155 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT FOR MASON CASS...MENARD..LOGAN..AND SANGAMON COUNTIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS AT 150 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED NO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER CENTAL ILLINOIS. HOWEVER DUE TO HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS NOW PRESENT OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS..THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LEVELS. PERSONS ARE URGED TO SEEK COVER IN A REINFORCED SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOP. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. FENLEY
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 2:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
ILZ005-006-007-009-162100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 245 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM FOR WESTERN ILLINOIS INCLUDING PEORIA AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES... AT 240 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM SOUTHEAST IOWA INTO NORTHEAST MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR THE MISSOURI/IOWA BORDER 40 MILES WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF BURLINGTON IOWA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE APPROACHING HENDERSON AND HANCOCK COUNTIES IN WESTERN ILLINOIS AROUND 400 PM. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TELEVISION...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MILLER
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 2:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
ILZ009-162100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 250 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT FOR MASON CASS...MENARD..LOGAN..AND SANGAMON COUNTIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS AT 245 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED NO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER CENTAL ILLINOIS. HOWEVER DUE TO HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS NOW PRESENT OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS..THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS ARE URGED TO SEEK COVER IN A REINFORCED SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOP. FENLEY
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
ILZ005-006-007-009-162150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 345 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM FOR WESTERN ILLINOIS INCLUDING PEORIA AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES... AT 340 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOLINE...ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF QUINCY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 35 AND 50 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF BURLINGTON IOWA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AND HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...LARGE HAIL HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE THROUGH PARTS OF WESTERN ILLINOIS THE NEXT FEW HOURS.B STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TELEVISION...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MILLER
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 4:21 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
ILZ009-162230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 420 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT FOR MASON CASS...MENARD..LOGAN..AND SANGAMON COUNTIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS AT 416 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAS NOW MOVED INTO WESTERN ILLINOIS. THE STORMS WERE WEST OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES EAST OF KEOKUK IOWA TO NEAR MOLINE ILLINOIS. NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER DUE TO HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS ARE UbRGED TO SEEK COVER IN A REINFORCED SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOP. HILLIARD ATTN ISP DISTRICT 9
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 4:44 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
ILZ005-006-007-009-162250- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 442 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM FOR WESTERN ILLINOIS... AT 440 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM JUST EAST OF MOLINE TO JUST EAST OF BURLINGTON IOWA INTO EXTREME NORTHEAST MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 20 MILES SOUTH OF MOLINE AND IN NORTHERN HANCOCK COUNTY NEAR NAUVOO...20 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF BURLINGTON. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...LARGE HAIL HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO| FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MILLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Bureau | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 6:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Hancock | 97 min |
| Jun 16, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Knox, Stark | 25 min |
Nearby
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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.