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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Lincoln, IL

July 11, 1993Coles County, Cumberland County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1993, 4:08 PM CDT for Coles County, Cumberland County, Illinois. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 11, 1993, 4:08 PM CDT (21:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 1993, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Coles County, IL, Cumberland County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 262 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1481 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 811 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 11, 2:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 11, 3:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 11, 3:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

ILZ009-112130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
305 PM CDT SUN JUL 11 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS
UNTIL 900 PM...

THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN
CENTRAL ILLINOIS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AS A RESULT...A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR MUCH OF THE REGION...INCLUDING
MASON COUNTY.

AT 300 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE WITHIN AN AREA BETWEEN QUINCY...
SPRINGFIELD AND ST. LOUIS. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN SOUTH
OF MASON COUNTY...BUT ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO FOR
LATER STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS.
                                                    MILLER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Tazewell	25 min
Jul 10, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Bureau	35 min
Jul 10, 8:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Fulton, Hancock, McDonough	4 hr
Jul 10, 8:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Tazewell	36 min
Jul 11, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Morgan	42 min
Jul 11, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Sangamon	45 min
Jul 11, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Macon	37 min
Jul 11, 6:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Hancock	58 min
Jul 11, 6:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Hancock	58 min

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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.