Alert archive / Illinois / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 1993, 10:34 PM CDT for Carroll County, Illinois. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 1993, 10:34 PM CDT (03:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1993, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carroll County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 306 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1117 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 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 KRFD 180334
FFWRFD
ILC015-180630-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCKFORD IL
1034 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF ILLINOIS
CARROLL
AT 1030 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER
SOUTHERN CARROLL COUNTY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE BEEN ESTIMATED
TO BE OVER 2 INCHES IN THE PAST HOUR. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
LOCATED BACK IN IOWA AND WILL ALSO MOVE THROUGH THE COUNTY.
SOME COMMUNITIES THAT ARE IN OR NEAR THE FLASH FLOOD AREA...
THOMSON...MT CARROLL AND CHADWICK.
IF YOU ARE IN LOW LYING...FLOOD PRONE AREA...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND!
IF CAMPING...WATCH FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER THAT MAY ENDANGER YOUR
CAMPSITE! DO NOT CROSS HIGHWAYS THAT ARE COVERED BY WATER...IT MAY
BE MUCH DEEPER THAN YOU THINK! REMEMBER...FLASH FLOODS HAPPEN VERY
RAPIDLY...BE ALERT!
THIS RAIN IS FALLING OVER ALREADY SATURATED GROUND WHICH WILL
COMPLICATE THE FLOODING PROBLEM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.
BRONIARCZYKWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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, Jul 17, 8:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-180230 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 830 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 1100 PM... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR HENDERSON... WARRREN...KNOX...STARK...PEORIA...MARSHALL...WOODFORD...PUTNAM AND BUREAU COUNTIES. THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR MCDONOUGH... FULTON...SCHUYLER...MASON AND TAZEWELL COUNTIES. AT 825 PM...THERE WERE NO SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN OR CENTRAL ILLINOIS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN IOWA ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO PARTS OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS AFTER 1000 PM AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TV...OR LOCAL RADIO FOR LATER UPDATES. MILLER
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 8:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
ILZ009-170215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 8 40 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR CASS COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR CASS COUNTY UNTIL 11 PM CDT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. AT 8 35 PM CDT...RADAR DID NOT INDICATE ANY SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS. HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED THUDERSTORM WAS 30 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF ST LOUIS AND MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST. STAY TUNED TO YOUR FAVORITE SOURCE OF WEATHER INFORMATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES. AUTEN
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 8:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
ILZ009-170215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION...HEADLINE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 8 40 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR CASS COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR CASS COUNTY UNTIL 11 PM CDT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. AT 8 35 PM CDT...RADAR DID NOT INDICATE ANY SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS. HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED THUDERSTORM WAS 30 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF ST LOUIS AND MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST. STAY TUNED TO YOUR FAVORITE SOURCE OF WEATHER INFORMATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES. AUTEN
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 9:50 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-180430 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 950 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR ALL OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINSOI... WITH THE CANCELLATION OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH...THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED FOR THE EVENING ACROSS THE HEART OF ILLINOIS. AT 945 PM...ONLY SHOWERS WERE DETECTED OVER WESTERN WOODFORD COUNTY... 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF PEORIA. ELSWHERE ACROSS THEl REGION ONLY PARTLY CLOUDY COINDITIONS PERSISTED. THE CHANCE REMAINS FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT AND SOME HEAVY RAIN MAY YET BE SEEN ...BUT THE LIKELYHOOD OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN GREATLY REDUCED. BREESER
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 9:50 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-180430 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 950 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR ALL OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... WITH THE CANCELLATION OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH...THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED FOR THE EVENING ACROSS THE HEART OF ILLINOIS. AT 945 PM...ONLY SHOWERS WERE DETECTED OVER WESTERN WOODFORD COUNTY... 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF PEORIA. ELSWHERE ACROSS THE REGION ONLY PARTLY CLOUDY COINDITIONS PERSISTED. THE CHANCE REMAINS FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT AND SOME HEAVY RAIN MAY YET BE SEEN ...BUT THE LIKELYHOOD OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN GREATLY REDUCED. BREESER /SPELLING/
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 9:54 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-180430 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 950 PM CDT SAT JUL 17 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR ALL OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... WITH THE CANCELLATION OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH...THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED FOR THE EVENING ACROSS THE HEART OF ILLINOIS. AT 945 PM...ONLY SHOWERS WERE DETECTED OVER WESTERN WOODFORD COUNTY... 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF PEORIA. ELSWHERE ACROSS THE REGION ONLY PARTLY CLOUDY COINDITIONS PERSISTED. THE CHANCE REMAINS FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT AND SOME HEAVY RAIN MAY YET BE SEEN ...BUT THE LIKELYHOOD OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN GREATLY REDUCED. BREESER /SPELLING/
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall | 62 min |
| Jul 18, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Menard | 56 min |
| Jul 18, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Edgar | 38 min |
| Jul 18, 5:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | DeKalb | 2 hr |
| Jul 18, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Shelby | 21 min |
| Jul 18, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles | 28 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.