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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Lincoln, IL

August 23, 1993Woodford County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 1993, 4:53 PM CDT for Woodford County, Illinois. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 23, 1993, 4:53 PM CDT (21:53 UTC)
Expired: Aug 23, 1993, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties

County Woodford County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 416 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: 2053 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 960 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -10 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, Aug 23, 3:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 23, 3:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMEN
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
323 PM CDT MON AUG 23 1993

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF WEST CENTRAL
AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 900 PM CDT...

AT 320 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS AND
RAINSHOWERS OVER WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...WEST OF A LINE FROM QUINCY TO
MOLINE.  THESE STORMS COULD BRING BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL...
FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND STRONG WINDS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST
AT 30 MPH.

STAY TUNED TO YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER INFORMATION SOURCE FOR ADDITIONAL
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

BUCKINGHAM

Special weather statement, Aug 23, 3:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

ILZ005-006-007-232200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMEN
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
323 PM CDT MON AUG 23 1993

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF WEST CENTRAL
AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 900 PM CDT...

AT 320 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS AND
RAINSHOWERS OVER WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...WEST OF A LINE FROM QUINCY TO
MOLINE.  THESE STORMS COULD BRING BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL...
FREQUENT DANGEROUhS LIGHTNING...AND STRONG WINDS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST
AT 30 MPH.

STAY TUNED TO YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER INFORMATION SOURCE FOR ADDITIONAL
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

BUCKINGHAM

Special weather statement, Aug 23, 4:13 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

ILZ009-232200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL
4 12 PM CDT MON AUG 23 1993

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL
ILLINOIS UNTIL 9 PM CDT...

AT 410 PM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST EAST OF
MOLINE...TO 30 MILES WEST OF PEORIA...TO WEST OF ST. LOUIS.  THE
STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 60 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...AND
20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF QUINCY.  MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REACH CASS AND MORGAN COUNTIES IN
CENTRAL ILLINOIS BY 5 PM.  SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE.

STAY TUNED TO YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER INFORMATION SOURCE FOR ADDITIONAL
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

MCCOY

Special weather statement, Aug 23, 4:22 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

ILZ005-006-007-232300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
422 PM CDT MON AUG 23 1993

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF WEST CENTRAL
AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 900 PM CDT...

AT 420 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ACROSS WEST CENTRAL
AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS...MOSTLY WEST OF A LINE FROM CANTON...IN FULTON
COUNTY...AND EXTENDING TO THE SOUTHWEST PAST FREDERICK...IN SCHUYLER
COUNTY.  THESE STORMS COULD BRING BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL...
FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND STRONG WINDS.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST
AT 35 MPH.

STAY TUNED TO YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER INFORMATION SOURCE FOR ADDITIONAL
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

BUCKINGHAM

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Special weather statement, Aug 23, 4:22 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
422 PM CDT MON AUG 23 1993

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF WEST CENTRAL
AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 900 PM CDT...

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 23, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Peoria	55 min
Aug 23, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton	37 min
Aug 23, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Tazewell	63 min
Aug 23, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeKalb	49 min
Aug 23, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Mason	62 min
Aug 23, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Tazewell, Woodford	64 min
Aug 23, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Marshall, Putnam	65 min
Aug 23, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	McLean	55 min
Aug 23, 6:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Tazewell, Woodford	118 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1993 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993

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.