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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Lincoln, IL

April 25, 1994Ogle County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 1994, 9:02 PM CDT for Ogle County, Illinois. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 25, 1994, 9:02 PM CDT (02:02 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 1994, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties

County Ogle County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 288 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 508 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 287 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 406 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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, Apr 25, 5:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 25, 6:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

ILZ025>027-034>036-040-041-260140-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
635 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...

AT 635 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE WEST OF A LINE FROM
ALTONA...IN KNOX COUNTY...TO LEWISTOWN...IN FULTON COUNTY...TO
CHANDLERVILLE...IN SCHUYLER COUNTY.  THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 30 MPH.

GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED
OVER WESTERN ILLINOIS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING.  STAY TUNED
TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA NEWS SOURCE FOR CURRENT
INFORMATION.

BUCKINGHAM

Special weather statement, Apr 25, 7:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

ILZ047-050-260145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL
742 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG THE ILLINOIS RIVER...

AT 740 PM...SPRINGFIELD RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
ALONG THE ILLINOIS RIVER...FROM ABOUT MIDWAY BETWEEN QUINCY AND
ST LOUIS...TO NEAR BEARDSTOWN.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING
TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT AREAS ALONG
THE RIVER FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO.

FREQUENT LIGHTNING...BRIEF DOWNPOURS OF RAIN...AND SOME SMALL HAIL
ARE ALL POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

GEELHART

Special weather statement, Apr 25, 7:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

ILZ025>027-029-034>036-040-041-260250-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
748 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994

...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS WESTERN ILLINOIS...

AROUND MID EVENING...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS THE
REGION...MAINLY WEST OF THE ILLINOIS RIVER.  THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM
WAS OCCURRING OVER SOUTHEASTERN MCDONOUGH COUNTY 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF
QUINCY.  ALL OF THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT
AROUND 35 MPH AS THE ENTIRE AREA EXPANDS SLOWLY TO THE EAST.

RAINFALL WILL BEGIN IN THE PEORIA AREA DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION
STATION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.

BREESER

Special weather statement, Apr 25, 7:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

ILZ025>027-029-034>036-040-041-260250-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
748 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994

...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS WESTERN ILLINOIS...

AROUND MID EVENING...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS THE
REGION...MAINLY WEST OF THE ILLINOIS RIVER.  THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM
WAS OCCURRING OVER SOUTHEASTERN MCDONOUGH COUNTY 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF
QUINCY.  ALL OF THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT
AROUND 35 MPH AS THE ENTIRE AREA EXPANDED SLOWLY TO THE EAST.

RAINFALL WILL BEGIN IN THE PEORIA AREA DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION
STATION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.

BREESER

Special weather statement, Apr 25, 8:37 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Ogle, Winnebago	49 min
Apr 26, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	McLean	40 min
Apr 26, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	McLean	55 min
Apr 26, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Woodford	53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1994 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.