Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 1993, 6:11 PM CDT for Tazewell County, Woodford County, Illinois. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 1993, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 1993, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Tazewell County, IL, Woodford County, IL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Minier, IL | A woman photographed a narrow tornado on the ground in an open field. As it approached it lifted. No damage was reported. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 402 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
- 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
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, 3:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 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, 1 hour 58 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, 1 hour 49 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...
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.
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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
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R 6H.Special weather statement, Aug 23, 5:11 PM CDT, 1 hour before
ILZ009-232300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 5 11 PM CDT MON AUG 23 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 9 PM CDT... AT 510 PM CDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO CENTRAL ILLINOIS...AND EXTENDED FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF BLOOMINGTON...TO 45 MILES WEST OF SPRINGFIELD...TO THE ST. LOUIS AREA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. THE MOST INTENSE STORMS WERE LOCATED 45 MILES WEST AND NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD NEAR BEARDSTOWN AND MEREDOSIA. STRONG GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...AND SOME SMALL HAIL SHOULD BE EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGER STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS CASS AND MORGAN COUNTIES TO NEAR VIRGINIA AND JACKSONVILLE BETWEEN 530 AND 600 PM. STAY TUNED TO YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER INFORMATION SOURCE FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MCCOY
Special weather statement, Aug 23, 5:52 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
ILZ009-232345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 5 51 PM CDT MON AUG 23 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 9 PM CDT... AT 550 PM CDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF BLOOMINGTON...TO NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD NEAR ASHLAND...TO ST. LOUIS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. THE HEAVIEST STORMS IN THIS LINE WERE LOCATED 28 MILES NORTHWEST AND 45 MILES WEST OF SPRINGFIELD. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...AND SOME HAIL SHOULD BE EXPECTED AS THIS LINE OF STORMS MOVES ACROSS MORGAN AND MENARD COUNTIES THROUGH 630 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER INFORMATION SOURCE FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. THE STORMS SHOULD MOVE TO A LINCOLN...SPRINGFIELD...CARLINVILLE LINE BY AROUND 7 PM. MCCOY
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, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Woodford | 67 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, 6:25 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
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.