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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 19, 1990McDonough County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1990, 2:03 PM CDT for McDonough County, Illinois. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 19, 1990, 2:03 PM CDT (19:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 1990, 2:40 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties

County 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 414 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: 1905 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 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 191903
SVRPIA
ILC109-192000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
203 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
      CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MCDONOUGH

AT 156 PM CDT THE THE CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTOR IN MCDONOUGH
COUNTY ILLINOIS REPORT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH
MACOMB ILLINOIS.

WIND GUST TO 55 MPH WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.

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.

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.

ATTN ISP   14

STUMETZ

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, Jun 19, 10:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before

ILZ005-006-007-009-192300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
1050 AM CDT TUE JUN 19 1990

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT...
...HIGH RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT...

DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE OVER THE CENTRAL PLAIN STATES IS EXPECTED
TO MOVE THROUGH ILLINOIS BY WEDNESDAY MORNING.  THE LOW PRESSURE
AND ASSOCIATED FRONTAL SYSTEMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED WITH SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND THE POSSIBLITY OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.

THE PRECIPTATION WILL BE ENDING WEDNESDAY MORNING AFTER THE SYSTEM
MOVES EAST OF THE STATE.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO
STATIONS FOR tFURTHER INFORMATION PERTAINING TO THIS WEATHER SYSTEM.

STUMETZ

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.