Alert archive / Illinois / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 6, 1993, 1:48 AM CDT for Mason County, Illinois. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 6, 1993, 1:48 AM CDT (06:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1993, 5:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mason County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 368 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 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 KPIA 060651 FFWPIA ILC125-061045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 148 AM CDT MON SEP 6 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEORIA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...MASON COUNTY AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WILL BE MOVING INTO MUCH OF MASON COUNTY BETWEEN 200 AND 230 AM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE A LARGE AMOUNT OF RAINFALL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. THIS WILL ONLY AGGRAVATE AN ALREADY DANGEROUS FLOODING SITUATION IN MASON COUNTY CAUSED BY AN OVERFLOWING UNDERGROUND AQUIFER. MANY ROADS IN MASON COUNTY WERE EITHER CLOSED OR HAD SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF WATER ON THEM INCLUDING HIGHWAY 136 EAST OF HAVANA...ROUTE 97 NORTH OF KILBOURNE...ROUTE 10 BETWEEN EASTON AND TEHRAN...AND ROUTE 78 SOUTH OF BATH. 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 FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. 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. 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, Sep 6, 12:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-060700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 1245 AM CDT MON SEP 6 1993 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 1235 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THIS BAND OF SHOWERS AND STORMS EXTENDED FROM QUINCY TO MACOMB IN MCDONOUGH COUNTY...TO LEWISTOWN IN FULTON COUNTY...TO PEORIA...THROUGH MCLEAN COUNTY AND INTO EASTERN ILLINOIS. THOUGH NONE OF THE STORMS WERE STRONG AT THIS TIME...THEY WERE PRODUCING BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN WITH OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. DUE TO THE PREVIOUS HEAVY RAINFALL TOTALS ...ANY ADDITIONAL RAINS FALLING ON GROUNDS ALREADY SATURATED WILL ONLY AGGRAVATE FLOODING SITUATIONS THAT SOME AREAS ARE ALREADY FACING. THIS IS PARTICULARLY TRUE IN MASON COUNTY WHERE RECENT HEAVY RAINS HAVE CAUSED AND UNDERGROUND AQUIFER TO OVERFLOW AND FLOOD PORTIONS OF THAT COUNTY AND CLOSE SOME ROADWAYS STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. OUSLEY
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 12:46 AM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-060700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 1245 AM CDT MON SEP 6 1993 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 1235 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THIS BAND OF SHOWERS AND STORMS EXTENDED FROM QUINCY TO MACOMB IN MCDONOUGH COUNTY...TO LEWISTOWN IN FULTON COUNTY...TO PEORIA...THROUGH MCLEAN COUNTY AND INTO EASTERN ILLINOIS. THOUGH NONE OF THE STORMS WERE STRONG AT THIS TIME...THEY WERE PRODUCING BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN WITH OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING. DUE TO THE PREVIOUS HEAVY RAINFALL TOTALS ...ANY ADDITIONAL RAINS FALLING ON GROUNDS ALREADY SATURATED WILL ONLY AGGRAVATE FLOODING SITUATIONS THAT SOME AREAS ARE ALREADY FACING. THIS IS PARTICULARLY TRUE IN MASON COUNTY WHERE RECENT HEAVY RAINS HAVE CAUSED AND UNDERGROUND AQUIFER TO OVERFLOW AND FLOOD PORTIONS OF THAT COUNTY AND CLOSE SOME ROADWAYS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. OUSLEY
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 12:51 AM CDT, 57 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-060700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 1245 AM CDT MON SEP 6 1993 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 1235 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THIS BAND OF SHOWERS AND STORMS EXTENDED FROM QUINCY TO MACOMB IN MCDONOUGH COUNTY...TO LEWISTOWN IN FULTON COUNTY...TO PEORIA...THROUGH MCLEAN COUNTY AND INTO EASTERN ILLINOIS. THOUGH NONE OF THE STORMS WERE STRONG AT THIS TIME...THEY WERE PRODUCING BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN WITH OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. DUE TO THE PREVIOUS HEAVY RAINFALL TOTALS ...ANY ADDITIONAL RAINS FALLING ON GROUNDS ALREADY SATURATED WILL ONLY AGGRAVATE FLOODING SITUATIONS THAT SOME AREAS ARE ALREADY FACING. THIS IS PARTICULARLY TRUE IN MASON COUNTY WHERE RECENT HEAVY RAINS HAVE CAUSED AND UNDERGROUND AQUIFER TO OVERFLOW AND FLOOD PORTIONS OF THAT COUNTY AND CLOSE SOME ROADWAYS STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. OUSLEY
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.