Alert archive / Illinois / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 1993, 9:47 PM CDT for Peoria County, Tazewell County, Woodford County, Illinois. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 15, 1993, 9:47 PM CDT (02:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1993, 12:10 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Peoria County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Woodford County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 409 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
- 649 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1446 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPIA 160249 FFWPIA ILC113-143-179-203-160545- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 947 PM CDT SUN AUG 15 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEORIA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...MCLEAN COUNTY...SOUTHERN PEORIA COUNTY...TAZEWELL COUNTY ...SOUTHERN WOODFORD COUNTY AT 940 PM CDT...THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FLOODING ACROSS NORTHERN TAZEWELL COUNTY NEAR WASHINGTON AND EAST PEORIA WHERE THE WATER WAS ONE TO TWO FEET DEEP IN SOME SPOTS. THERE WAS ALSO SERIOUS STREET AND HOUSE FLOODING REPORTED IN WEST PEORIA AT 945 PM. RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM THE DOPPLER RADAR NEAR CHICAGO INDICATED THAT 2.50 TO 3.00 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN NORTHERN TAZEWELL...SOUTHERN WOODFORD AND NORTHERN MCLEAN COUNTIES SINCE 830 PM. RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM BURLINGTON IOWA TO PEORIA TO 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BLOOMINGTON AT 945 PMTHESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER THE SAME AREAS DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS PRODUCING ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING. CITIES AND TOWNS INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE PEORIA...EAST PEORIA... WASHINGTON...MORTON...PEKIN...EUREKA...AND BLOOMINGTON/NORMAL. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOdD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. 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, Aug 15, 8:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
ILZ005-006-007-160210-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
800 PM CDT SUN AUG 15 1993
...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR STARK...MARSHALL...
PEORIA AND WOODFORD COUNTIES...
AT 755 PM... THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED
FROM BRIMFIELD IN NORTHERN PEORIA COUNTY EASTWARD TO EL PASO IN EASTERN
WOODFORD COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM IN THE LINE WAS NEAR EDELSTEIN IN
NORTHERN PEORIA COUNTY. THESE STORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST AT
20 TO 25 MPH.
EXPECT THE LINE OF STORMS TO CONTINUE TO SINK SOUTH AND EXTEND ACROSS CENTRAL
PEORIA AND WOODFORD COUNTIES IN THE NEXT HOUR. THE STRONG STORM NEAR EDELSTEIN
WILL MOVE THROUGH ROME IN NORTHEASTERN PEORIA COUNTY AND REACH CAZENOVIA IN
CENTRAL WOODFORD COUNTY THROUGH 9 PM. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WHICH OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES.
MOGGEDSpecial weather statement, Aug 15, 9:05 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
ILZ005-006-007-160400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 905 PM CDT SUN AUG 15 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS EXPIRED FOR WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 900 PM... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME CONTINUING TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS... EXTENDED FROM BURLINGTON TO PEORIA TO COLFAX IN NORTHEASTERN MCLEAN COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORM IN THE LINE WAS NEAR EVERGREEN LAKE IN NORTHWESTERN MCLEAN COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE BETWEEN BLOOMINGTON AND TOWANDA TO ARROWSMITH. MOGGED
Special weather statement, Aug 15, 9:07 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
ILZ005-006-007-160400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 905 PM CDT SUN AUG 15 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS EXPIRED FOR WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 900 PM... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME CONTINUING TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS... EXTENDED FROM BURLINGTON TO PEORIA TO COLFAX IN NORTHEASTERN MCLEAN COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORM IN THE LINE WAS NEAR EVERGREEN LAKE IN NORTHlWESTERN MCLEAN COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE BETWEEN BLOOMINGTON AND TOWANDA TO ARROWSMITH. MOGGED
Special weather statement, Aug 15, 9:12 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
ILZ010-160315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 912 PM CDT SUN AUG 16 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 908 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THE MOST INTENSE STORM WAS 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHAMPAIGN NEAR RANTOUL. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL SHOULD BE EXPECTED WITH THE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN CHAMPAIGN AND VERMILLION COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THESE STORMS SHOULD REACH THE CHAMPAIGN/URBANA AND DANVILLE AREAS BETWEEN 930 AND 1000 PM. MCCOY
Special weather statement, Aug 15, 9:28 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
ILZ009-010-160915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 3 20 AM CDT MON AUG 16 1993 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER THE AREA... AT 315 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT WAS LOCATED NORTH OF A LINE FROM 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD ...NEAR HAVANA TO 60 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD...NEAR FARMER CITY. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD...NEAR MORRISONVILLE TO 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF ST. LOUIS MISSOURI...NEAR BUNKER HILL. SINCE THESE ARE SLOW nMOVING SHOWERS AND STORMS...THEY MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. PEARSON
Local storm report, Aug 15, 9:30 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT ...PRELIMINARY...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
930 PM CDT MON AUG 16 1993
REPORTS FOR COUNTY WARNING AREA...BEGINNING 2050 CDT...AUGUST 15 1993
COUNTY TIME CDT
WOODFORD.. 2050 CDT SPRING BAY 11 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF PEORIA:
6 INCH TREE DOWN BY WINDS AT WOODFORD COUNTY CONSERVATION
AREA. REPORT FROM WOODFORD COUNTY ESDA.
MOGGED/MILLER/STUMETZThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Woodford | 49 min |
| Aug 15, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 50 min |
| Aug 15, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 37 min |
| Aug 15, 9:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | McLean | 2 hr |
| Aug 15, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 35 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.