Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1993, 6:52 PM CDT for Carroll County, Illinois. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 1993, 6:52 PM CDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1993, 7:23 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carroll County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 428 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
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, Jun 17, 5:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
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ILZ007-180030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 640 PM CDT THU JUN 17 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN ILLINOIS UNTIL 8 PM... AT 625 PM... RADAR INDICATED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS... ONE NEAR MACOMB IN MCDONOUGH COUNTY AND TW0 LARGER STRONGER STORMS NEAR PRINCETON AND WYANET IN BUREAU COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. THE STRONGER STORMS IN BUREAU COUNTY WILL EXIT THE COUNTY BY 730 PM PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. THE STORMS IN BUREAU COUNTY ARE WITHIN THE WATCH AREA AND MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS AS THEY EXIT THE COUNTY.THE THUNDERSTORM NEAR MACOMB WILL ALSO CONTINUE A NORTHEAST TRACK MOVING ACROSS NORTHWESTERN FULTON COUNTY AND THEN INTO KNOX COUNTY DURING THE PERIOD. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA. . STAY TUNDED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WANINGS. MOGGED
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 6:48 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
ILZ007-180030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 640 PM CDT THU JUN 17 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN ILLINOIS UNTIL 8 PM... AT 625 PM... RADAR INDICATED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS... ONE NEAR MACOMB IN MCDONOUGH COUNTY AND TW0 LARGER STRONGER STORMS NEAR PRINCETON AND WYANET IN BUREAU COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. THE STRONGER STORMS IN BUREAU COUNTY WILL EXIT THE COUNTY BY 730 PM PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. THE STORMS IN BUREAU COUNTY ARE WITHIN THE WATCH AREA AND MAY RACH SEVERE LIMITS AS THEY EXIT THE COUNTY.THE THUNDERSTORM NEAR MACOMB WILL ALSO CONTINUE A NORTHEAST TRACK MOVING ACROSS NORTHWESTERN FULTON COUNTY AND THEN INTO KNOX COUNTY DURING THE PERIOD. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA. . STAY TUNDED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WANINGS. MOGGED
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 6:48 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
ILZ009-180045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 6 45 PM CDT THU JUN 17 1993 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD... AT 6 40 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS HAD DEVELOPED FROM ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD AND EXTENDED TO ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CARLINVILLE ILLINOIS...NORTHEAST OF ST. LOUIS. THE SCATTERED STORMS AND SHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. THE SOUTHEAST AND EAST EDGE OF SPRINGFIELD CAN EXPECT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...BRIEF GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN BETWEEN 700 AND 800 PM. THESE SAME CONDITIONS WILL AFFECT HETTICK...PALMYRA...GIRARD...VIRDEN ...DIVERNON...PAWNEE AND ROCHESTER. PALMER
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 6:51 PM CDT, 1 minute before
ILZ007-180030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 640 PM CDT THU JUN 17 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN ILLINOIS UNTIL 8 PM... AT 625 PM... RADAR INDICATED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS... ONE NEAR MACOMB IN MCDONOUGH COUNTY AND TW0 LARGER STRONGER STORMS NEAR PRINCETON AND WYANET IN BUREAU COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. THE STRONGER STORMS IN BUREAU COUNTY WILL EXIT THE COUNTY BY 730 PM PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. THE STORMS IN BUREAU COUNTY ARE WITHIN THE WATCH AREA AND MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS AS THEY EXIT THE COUNTY.THE THUNDERSTORM NEAR MACOMB WILL ALSO CONTINUE A NORTHEAST TRACK MOVING ACROSS NORTHWESTERN FULTON COUNTY AND THEN INTO KNOX COUNTY DURING THE PERIOD. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA. . STAY TUNDED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WANINGS. 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, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Lee, Ogle | 49 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1993Every 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.