Tornado Warning 18, NWS Lincoln, IL

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
900 AM CDT TUE MAY 14 1991

...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS WEST AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS...

AT 8:57 THIS MORNING... RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
SOME VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN EASTERN FULTON COUNTY NEAR HAVANA. THE STORM
HAS WEAKENED SOMEWHAT DURING THE PAST HOUR BUT IS STILL CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ALONG WITH THE HEAVY RAIN.

THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE UP ALONG THE ILLINOIS
RIVER IN THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF PEORIA.  IF THE STORM HOLDS TOGETHER IT
MAY BE EXPECTED TO REACH THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF PEORIA BY ABOUT 10:30 AM.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OUT IN WESTERN ILLINOIS NEAR QUINCY. THOSE THUNDER-
STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST TO HANCOCK AND SCHUYLER COUNTIES.

JACOBS

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
135 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1991

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 330 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM FOR
   EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... INCLUDING MCLEAN COUNTY...

AT 1:30 THIS AFTERNOON RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS OVER THE EASTERN HALF
OF MCLEAN COUNTY... MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

ELSEWHERE... A NEW THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING OVER KNOX COUNTY ABOUT
10 MILES EAST OF GALESBURG.
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A COUPLE OF SHOWERS HAD ALSO DEVELOPED IN WESTERN PEORIA COUNTY BETWEEN
BRIMFIELD AND PEORIA.

MOVEMENT HAD NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED ON THESE NEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
BUT THEY ARE PROBABLY MOVING EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH.
JACOBS

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
230 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1991

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN ILLINOIS...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AND BRIEF
GUSTY WINDS...WERE NEAR ALTONA...20 MILES NORTHEAST OF GALESBURG AT 225 PM.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DRIFTING SLOWLY TO THE NORTH AROUND 15 MPH. HEAVY
RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS MAY RESULT IN PONDING OF WATER OR MINOR
FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTH
OF KNOX COUNTY BY 300 PM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
INCLUDING MCLEAN COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM. THERE HAVE BEEN NO RECENT REPORTS
OF SEVERE WEATHER FROM MCLEAN COUNTY. WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 225 PM
INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN MCLEAN COUNTY
ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF BLOOMINGTON. THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE MOVING
EAST AROUND 15 MPH.              ~                                MILLER