Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 1990, 4:54 PM CST for Hancock County, McDonough County, Schuyler County, Illinois. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 1990, 4:54 PM CST (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 1990, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hancock County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Schuyler 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, 10.9 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.
- 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 102254
SVRPIA
ILC067-109-169-102345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
454 PM CST SAT MAR 10 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
SOUTHEAST HANCOCK...SOUTHERN MCDONOUGH...SCHUYLER
AT 445 PM CST SPOTTERS REPORTED ONE INCH HAIL AT WEST POINT IN
SOUTHERN HANCOCK COUNTY...30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MACOMB.
THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST NORHEAST AT 40 MPH.
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.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT.
INTENSE LIGHTNING IS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...
STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS. MOVE INDOOR IF POSSIBLE. WHEN
INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING
TELEPHONES AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT.
CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE AUGUSTA AND PLYMOUTH IN
SOUTHEASTERN HANCOCK COUNTY...LITTLETON IN NORTHERN SCHUYLER COUNTY
AND INDUSTRY IN SOUTHERN MCDONOUGH COUNTY.
ATTN ISP DIST 14 AND 20
NADOLSKIWhat 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 10, 2:03 PM CST, 2 hours 51 minutes before
ILZ009-010-102100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 200PM CST SAT MAR 10 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 400PM THIS AFTERNOON... AT 155PM CST...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THE LARGEST AREA OF STORMS WAS NORTH OF A LINE FROM QUINCY...TO CLINTON...40 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD...TO JUST NORTH OF DANVILLE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN WESTERN DEWITT COUNTY...5 MILES WEST OF CLINTON...JUST SOUTHEAST OF CHAMPAIGN...AND 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF DANVILLE...IN NORTHERN VERMILION COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH...AND MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. AT 105PM MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN SOUTHERN MACON COUNTY... SOUTH OF DECATUR. AT 140PM PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF URBANA IN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY. PERSONS ACROSS CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS NEED TO MONITOR THE CHANGING CONDITIONS AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPS. WAGNER ATTN ISP DISTS...6...9...10
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 3:00 PM CST, 1 hour 54 minutes before
ILZ005-006-007-009-102200-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
300 PM CST SAT MAR 10 1990
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS
UNTIL 900 PM TONIGHT...
...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS
FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED OVER
PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS FROM JUST SOUTH OF BLOOMINGTON BACK TO
MACOMB IN CENTRAL MCDONOUGH COUNTY.
THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OCCURRING 15 MILES SOUTH OF BLOOMINGTON...
HOWEVER NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MPH.
; NADOLSKISpecial weather statement, Mar 10, 3:11 PM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes before
ILZ009-010-102200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 305PM CST SAT MAR 10 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 900PM THIS EVENING... AT 300PM CST...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THE LARGEST AREA OF STORMS WAS NORTH OF A LINE FROM BEARDSTOWN...TO 10 MILES NORTH OF DECATUR...TO DANVILLE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 30 MILES NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD...15 MILES NORTH OF DECATUR ...AND 15 MILES WEST OF CHAMPAIGN...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. AT 234PM 1/2 TO 3/4 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED AT HOOPESTON IN EXTREME NORTHEAST VERMILION COUNTY. AT 259PM MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT MAHOMET...NORTHWEST OF CHAMPAIGN. THE STRONG STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS ACROSS CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS NEED TO MONITOR THE CHANGING CONDITIONS AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF HSAFETY IF SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPS. WAGNER ATTN ISP DISTS...6...9...10
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 3:54 PM CST, 1 hour before
ILZ005-006-007-009-102300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 350 PM CST SAT MAR 10 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 900 PM TONIGHT... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTHEAST IOWA INTO NORTHEAST MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE APPROACHING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER BETWEEN BURLINGTON KEOKUK IOWA. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING INTO HENDERSON AND HANCOCK COUNTIES OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 40 MPH AND MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...INTENSE AND DANGERzOUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL. NADOLSKI
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 4:08 PM CST, 46 minutes before
ILZ009-010-102300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 405PM CST SAT MAR 10 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 900PM THIS EVENING... AT 400PM CST...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS...MAINLY IN AN AREA ABOUT 60 MILES WIDE EXTENDING FROM BURLINGTON IOWA TO JUST SOUTH OF PEORIA ILLINOIS TO CHAMPAIGN AND DANVILLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THERE WERE NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS BETWEEN 300PM AND 400 PM. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE UP TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL...HEAVY RAINS AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS ACROSS CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS NEED TO MONITOR THE CHANGING CONDITIONS AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPS. PALMER ATTN ISP DISTS...6...9...10
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 4:44 PM CST, 10 minutes before
ILZ005-006-007-009-102330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 445 PM CST SAT MAR 10 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 900 PM TONIGHT... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS FOR TONIGHT... RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN HENDERSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. NAUVOO IN NORTHWESTERN HANCOCK COUNTY ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 40 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HAIL... HEAVY RAIN...INTENSE AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. NADOLSKI
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, 12:11 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Peoria | 64 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1990Every severe thunderstorm 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.