Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 1993, 5:52 PM CDT for McLean County, Illinois. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 1993, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 1993, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County McLean County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 381 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 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, May 12, 3:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
ILZ009-122200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 3 50 PM CDT WED MAY 12 1993 ...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN BLOOMINGTON AND SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 8 PM CDT... AT 3 40 PM...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN SPRINGFIELD AND PEORIA IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THE STORMS WERE FROM 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF QUINCY TO SPRINGFIELD TO BETWEEN CLINTON AND DE WITT. OTHER STRONG STORMS EXTENDED FROM BLOOMINGTON TO 20 MILES NORTH OF DANVILLE ILLINOIS. TAKE SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING FOR SAFETY FROM THESE STORMS. THEY WILL HAVE FREQENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HAIL...BRIEF STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY DOWNPURS OF RAIN. PALMER
Special weather statement, May 12, 3:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
ILZ009-122200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED TO ADD STORM MOVEMENT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 3 50 PM CDT WED MAY 12 1993 ...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN BLOOMINGTON AND SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 8 PM CDT... AT 3 40 PM...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN SPRINGFIELD AND PEORIA IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THE STORMS WERE FROM 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF QUINCY TO SPRINGFIELD TO BETWEEN CLINTON AND DE WITT. OTHER STRONG STORMS EXTENDED FROM BLOOMINGTON TO 20 MILES NORTH OF DANVILLE ILLINOIS. ALL OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. TAKE SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING FOR SAFETY FROM THESE STORMS. THEY WILL HAVE FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HAIL...BRIEF STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY DOWNPURS OF RAIN. PALMER
Special weather statement, May 12, 4:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
ILZ006-007-009-122200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 400 PM CDT TUE MAY 11 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR TAZEWELL AND MCLEAN COUNTIES... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE ONCE AGAIN DEVELOPING IN MCLEAN COUNTY AT 4 PM. ONE SMALL STORM WAS NEAR COLFAX WHILE ANOTHER WAS NEAR DANVERS. THESE STORMS WERE SINKING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY INTENSIFY AS THEY MOVE FURTHER SOUTH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PRODUCE LARGE HAIL... GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. ALSO.. A THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED JUST EAST OF RUSHVILLE IN SCHUYLER COUNTY WHICH WAS MOVI,NG SOUTH AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO ON A FREQUENCY OF 162.475 MEGAHERTZ OR LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MOGGED
Special weather statement, May 12, 4:58 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
ILZ009-010-122300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 4 50 PM CDT WED MAY 12 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF CHAMPAIGN AND DANVILLE ILLINOIS... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 8 PM CDT... AT 4 40 PM...RADAR INDICATED A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST LIVINGSTON...SOUTHERN FORD AND IROQUOIS COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS NORTH OF CHAMPAIGN AND DANVILLE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN AREAS OF CHAMPAIGN AND VERMILION COUNTIES SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING FOR PROTECTION FROM THESE STORMS. THEY WILL HAVE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HAIL... BRIEF STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS. OTHER SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DECATUR TO EFFINGHAM. THESE SHOWERS AND, THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. PALMER
Special weather statement, May 12, 5:07 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
ILZ006-007-009-132300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 503 PM CDT TUE MAY 11 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR TAZEWELL AND MCLEAN COUNTIES... A COLD FRONT DROPPING SOUTH FROM NORTHERN ILLINOIS WILL HELP TO TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM BURLINGTON TO PONTIAC. AT 5 PM... WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS ACROSS TAZEWELL AND MCLEAN COUNTIES. ONE ISOLATED SHOWER WAS IN SOUTHERN FULTON HCOUNTY. ALL THE ACTIVITY WAS MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO ON A FREQUENCY OF 162.475 MEGAHERTZ OR LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MOGGED
Special weather statement, May 12, 5:52 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
ILZ009-010-122300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 5 50 PM CDT WED MAY 12 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD AND CHAMPAIGN AREAS... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 8 PM CDT... AT 5 40 PM...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM BLOOMINGTON TO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF RANTOUL. OTHER ISOLATED STRONG STORMS WERE 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAVANA AND BETWEEN PEORIA AND DELEVAN. THESE STRONG STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN AREAS OF CHAMPAIGN AND VERMILION COUNTIES SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING FOR PROTECTION FROM THESE STORMS. THEY WILL HAVE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HAIL... BRIEF STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS. OTHER SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR ALTON ILLINOIS TO JUST SOUTH OF CHARLESTON AND MATTOON TO TERR HAUTE INDIANA. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. PALMER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 43 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.