Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1994, 9:08 PM CDT for Coles County, Douglas County, Moultrie County, Illinois. It was in force for 52 min. 2 reports 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
- Apr 26, 1994, 9:08 PM CDT (02:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1994, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coles County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Moultrie County, IL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Arcola, IL | At 2027 CST, a confirmed tornado touched down 2 SW of Arcola and lifted three minutes later. Three out buildings were blown over. |
| Apr 26, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Cooks Mills, IL | A tornado touched down three miles north of Cooks Mills and lifted five miles NE of Cooks Mills. Some farm equipment was damaged, as well as, four high voltage power lines. Damage is estimated between $620,000 and $700,000. |
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 00:00Z, 2.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2999 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 10.5
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 26, 4:17 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before
ILZ029-031-037-261720- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 1115 AM CDT TUE APR 26 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AROUND 415 PM...SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER CENTRAL WOODFORD COUNTY AND NORTHERN PEORIA COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER ROANOKE IN CENTRAL WOODFORD COUNTY. SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED AS THE STORMS MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND INTO EARLY EVENING. THE THREAT OF RAINFALL WILL THEN BE ENDING AROUND MID EVENING. BREESER
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 4:23 PM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
ILZ029-031-037-262230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION.. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 420 PM CDT TUE APR 26 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AROUND 415 PM...SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER CENTRAL WOODFORD COUNTY AND NORTHERN PEORIA COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER ROANOKE IN CENTRAL WOODFORD COUNTY. SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED AS THE STORMS MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND INTO EARLY EVENING. THE THREAT OF RAINFALL WILL THEN BE ENDING AROUND MID EVENING. BREESER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian | 44 min |
| Apr 26, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean, Tazewell, Woodford | 42 min |
| Apr 26, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon | 54 min |
| Apr 26, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian | 30 min |
| Apr 26, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Macon, Shelby | 38 min |
| Apr 26, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian | 19 min |
| Apr 26, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Macon, Moultrie, Shelby | 47 min |
| Apr 26, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macoupin, Montgomery | 61 min |
| Apr 26, 9:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | McLean | 41 min |
| Apr 26, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon, Sangamon | 41 min |
| Apr 26, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Douglas | 38 min |
| Apr 26, 10:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign, Piatt | 44 min |
| Apr 26, 10:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt | 44 min |
| Apr 26, 10:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Montgomery | 34 min |
| Apr 26, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Edgar, Vermilion | 30 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.