Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1993, 5:26 PM CDT for Lee County, Ogle County, Illinois. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 1993, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1993, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lee County, IL, Ogle County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 478 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KRFD 172226 RRA
SVRRFD
ILC141-103-172315-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCKFORD IL
526 PM CDT THU JUN 17 1993
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
SOUTHERN OGLE...WESTERN LEE
AT 520 PM CDT...THE SHERIFFS OFFICE IN LEE COUNTY REPORTED TREES
DOWNED AND TRAILERS BLOWN OVER BY STRONG WINDS NEAR DIXON.
THE STORM THAT PRODUCED THIS DAMAGE WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AROUND
20 MPH.
SOME COMMUNITIES THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
IN LEE COUNTY...PALMYRA
IN OGLE COUNTY...POLO...GRAND DETOUR
IF YOU ARE IN A REGION THREATENED BY THE STORM...MOVE OUT OF AREAS
THAT ARE PRONE TO FLOODING...AND GO TO A REINFORCED SHELTER!
DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD A LOW LYING AR EA IS IMMINENT!
REMEMBER ALSO...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING...SO BE ALERT!
PETROVICHWhat 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, Jun 17, 2:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
ILZ007-172100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 250 PM CDT THU JUN 17 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN ILLINOIS... AT 216 PM... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING THROUGH NORTHWEST ILLINOIS AND NORTHEAST IOWA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE STILL LOCATED IN IOWA AND WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH. AT 230 PM... THERE WAS A THUNDERSTORM LOCATED NORTHEAST OF SHEFFIELD IN BUREAU COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. NO OTHER SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE AREA...HOWEVER...PERSONS NEED TO BE AWARE OF THESE STORMS AND THEIR POTENTIAL. THEY MAY CREATE HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. YOU MAY NEED TO SEED SHELTER AS THEY APPROACH. OUSLEY
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 2:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
ILZ007-172100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 250 PM CDT THU JUN 17 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN ILLINOIS... AT 216 PM... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING THROUGH NORTHWEST ILLINOIS AND NORTHEAST IOWA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE STILL LOCATED IN IOWA AND WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH. AT 230 PM... THERE WAS A THUNDERSTORM LOCATED NORTHEAST OF SHEFFIELD IN BUREAU COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. NO OTHER SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE AREA...HOWEVER...PERSONS NEED TO BE AWARE OF THESE STORMS AND THEIR POTENTIAL. THEY MAY CREATE HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. YOU MAY NEED TO SEED SHELTER AS THEY APPROACH. OUSLEY
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 3:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
ILZ007-172130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 330 PM CDT THU JUN 17 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN ILLINOIS... AT 325 PM... THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN KNOX COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF KNOXVILLE AND GALESBURG. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THESE STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE AS WE REACH THE WARMEST TIME OF THE DAY. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST... REACHING NEARBY STARK AND BUREAU COUNTIES BY 430 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENNTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MOGGED
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 3:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
ILZ007-172130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 330 PM CDT THU JUN 17 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN ILLINOIS... AT 325 PM... THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN KNOX COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF KNOXVILLE AND GALESBURG. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THESE STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE AS WE REACH THE WARMEST TIME OF THE DAY. THESE STORMS WILL CONT0INUE TO MOVE EAST... REACHING NEARBY STARK AND BUREAU COUNTIES BY 430 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENNTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MOGGED
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 4:30 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
ILZ007-172130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 430 PM CDT THU JUN 17 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN ILLINOIS... AT 425 PM... AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS ENTERING THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF BUREAU COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF THOMAS... NEW BEDFORD AND YORKTOWN... ALL IN THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF BUREAU COUNTY THROUGH 530 PM. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE HEARTLAND. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENNTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MOGGED
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 4:36 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
ILZ007-172130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 430 PM CDT THU JUN 17 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN ILLINOIS... AT 425 PM... AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS ENTERING THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF BUREAU COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF THOMAS... NEW BEDFORD AND YORKTOWN... ALL IN THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF BUREAU COUNTY THROUGH 530 PM. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE HEARTLAND. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENNTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. ^MOGGED
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Stephenson | 49 min |
| Jun 17, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Stephenson | 42 min |
| Jun 17, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Ogle, Winnebago | 31 min |
| Jun 17, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Boone, Winnebago | 46 min |
| Jun 17, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Carroll | 31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.