Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS Lincoln, IL
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.
- 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
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/STUMETZSpecial weather statement, Aug 15, 10:15 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
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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 | Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford | 2 hr |
| Aug 15, 9:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | McLean | 2 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.