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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS Lincoln, IL

August 15, 1993Tazewell County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1993, 10:25 PM CDT for Tazewell County, Illinois. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 15, 1993, 10:25 PM CDT (03:25 UTC)
Expired
Aug 15, 1993, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Lincoln, IL
Area
Whole counties

County Tazewell County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 389 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 00:00Z on 1993-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 649 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 00:00Z on 1993-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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, Aug 15, 9:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 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, 1 hour 18 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, 1 hour 13 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, 57 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, 55 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/STUMETZ
Special weather statement, Aug 15, 10:15 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 15, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXWoodford49 min
Aug 15, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMcLean50 min
Aug 15, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXTazewell37 min
Aug 15, 9:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningILXPeoria, Tazewell, Woodford2 hr
Aug 15, 9:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningILXMcLean2 hr

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.