Alert archive / Illinois / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 1993, 4:54 AM CDT for 4 counties in Illinois. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 1993, 4:54 AM CDT (09:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1993, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fulton County, IL, Mason County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Tazewell County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 383 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
- 2590 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1054 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPIA 240955 FFWPIA ILC125-143-179-203-057-109-169-241400- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 454 AM CDT SAT JUL 24 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEORIA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...MASON COUNTY...PEORIA COUNTY...TAZEWELL COUNTY ...WOODFORD COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...FULTON COUNTY...MCDONOUGH COUNTY...SCHUYLER COUNTY VERY HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED IN THE AFFECTED COUNTIES THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. THE GROUND IS SATURATED AND MANY CREEKS ARE BANKFULL FROM RECENT HEAVY RAINS. SEVERAL ROADS IN THE NORTHERN PART OF PEORIA COUNTY ARE ALREADY UNDER WATER. AN OBSERVER IN BUSHNELL...45 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF PEORIA...REPORTED NEARLY 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN 45 MINUTES. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CHICAGO INDICATED THAT NEARLY 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ON THE STARK/PEORIA COUNTY LINE JUST NORTH OF PRINCEVILLE. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID CAMPING 4ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS. MILLER &
What 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 24, 12:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
ILZ005>007-240700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 1240 AM CDT SAT JUL 24 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER WESTERN ILLINOIS... AT 1235 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN ILLINOIS. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF IN AN HOUR AND WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER CENTRAL WARREN COUNTY... NEAR MONMOUTH...AND IN NORTHEASTERN KNOX COUNTY...WEST OF GALESBURG. STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO THE WESTERN ILLINOIS AREA FROM IOWA OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT ACROSS THE REGION THIS EVENING. SOME AREAS HAVE RECEIVED LARGE AMOUNTS OF PRECIPITATION TODAY AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL COULD CAUSE A FLOODING HAZARD. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY THROUGH LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO. SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS BECOME INUNDATED. OUSLEY
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 12:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
ILZ005>007-240700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 1245 AM CDT SAT JUL 24 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER WESTERN ILLINOIS... AT 1235 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN ILLINOIS. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF IN AN HOUR AND WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER CENTRAL WARREN COUNTY... NEAR MONMOUTH...AND IN NORTHEASTERN KNOX COUNTY...WEST OF GALESBURG. STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO THE WESTERN ILLINOIS AREA FROM IOWA OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT ACROSS THE REGION THIS EVENING. SOME AREAS HAVE RECEIVED LARGE AMOUNTS OF PRECIPITATION TODAY AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL COULD CAUSE A FLOODING HAZARD. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY THROUGH LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO. SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS BECOME INUNDATED. OUSLEY
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 12:49 AM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before
ILZ005>007-240700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 1245 AM CDT SAT JUL 24 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER WESTERN ILLINOIS... AT 1235 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN ILLINOIS. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF IN AN HOUR AND WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER CENTRAL WARREN COUNTY... NEAR MONMOUTH...AND IN NORTHEASTERN KNOX COUNTY...WEST OF GALESBURG. STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO THE WESTERN ILLINOIS AREA FROM IOWA OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT ACROSS THE REGION THIS EVENING. SOME AREAS HAVE RECEIVED LARGE AMOUNTS OF PRECIPITATION TODAY AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL COULD CAUSE A FLOODING HAZARD. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY THROUGH LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO. SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS BECOME INUNDATED. OUSLEY
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 1:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
ILZ009-240925- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 147 AM CDT SAT JUL 24 1993 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS OVERNIGHT... AT 145 AM CDT...NO RAINFALL WAS DETECTED BY RADAR OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS. HOWEVER...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDESPREAD OVER NORTHWEST AND PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 65 MILES NORTHEAST OF PEORIA...TO 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PEORIA. SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO DETECTED OVER WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AROUND QUINCY...AND A LARGE AREA OF HEAVIER STORMS WAS OVER NORTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHERN IOWA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BEFORE SUNRISE OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE SATURATED GROUND COULD PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING OF SOME LOW LYING AREAS NEAR STREAMS AND RIVERS. IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA PRONE TO FLASH FLOODING ...PLAN AHEAD NOW FOR A QUICK EVACUATION IN CASE FLASH FLOODING DEVELOPS. STAY TUNED TO YOUR FAVORITE SOURCE FOR WEATHER INFORMATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS. MCCOY
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 4:23 AM CDT, 31 minutes before
ILZ009-241025- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 423 AM CDT SAT JUL 24 1993 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS... THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH WHICH WAS ISSUED FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS TODAY...BUT RAINFALL IS NOT EXPCTED TO BE HEAVY ENOUGH TO PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. MCCOY NEAR STREAMS AND RIVERS. z IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA PRONE TO FLASH FLOODING ...PLAN AHEAD NOW FOR A QUICK EVACUATION IN CASE FLASH FLOODING DEVELOPS. STAY TUNED TO YOUR FAVORITE SOURCE FOR WEATHER INFORMATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS. MCCOY
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 4:25 AM CDT, 29 minutes before
ILZ009-241025- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED TO DELETE LAST TWO PARAGRAPHS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 425 AM CDT SAT JUL 24 1993 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS... THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH WHICH WAS ISSUED FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS TODAY...BUT RAINFALL IS NOT EXPCTED TO BE HEAVY ENOUGH TO PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. MCCOY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 2:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Knox, Warren | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 3:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Knox, Stark | 4 hr |
| Jul 24, 3:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Henderson, Warren | 4 hr |
| Jul 24, 4:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 49 min |
| Jul 24, 4:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | McDonough | 4 hr |
| Jul 24, 4:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Peoria, Woodford | 4 hr |
| Jul 24, 5:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Bureau, Marshall, Putnam | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Illinois, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993
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.