Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1994, 5:05 PM CDT for Fulton County, Mason County, Illinois. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1994, 5:05 PM CDT (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1994, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fulton County, IL, Mason County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 384 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1555 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPIA 242204 SVRPIA ILC125-057-242300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 505 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEORIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...MASON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...FULTON COUNTY AT 5:00 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED NEAR TABLE GROVE IN SOUTHWESTERN FULTON COUNTY ...47 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF PEORIA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 46 MPH. THIS STORM WILL THREATEN THE COMMUNITY OF DUNCAN MILLS AROUND 5:13 PM...HAVANA AROUND 5:22 PM...TOPEKA AROUND 5:30 PM AND TEHERAN AROUND 5:41 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES. BREESER
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 24, 3:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
ILZ017-018-025>031-034>038-040-041-242210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 307 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 900 PM... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG...ARE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS IN THE COUNTIES OF MCLEAN...FULTON...MCDONOUGH...AND SCHUYLER. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO PEORIA AND MASON COUNTIES WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. HIGH WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. BUCKINGHAM
Special weather statement, May 24, 3:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
ILZ042>048-050>057-059>063-242130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 327 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR LOGAN AND DEWITT COUNTIES IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 9 00 PM CDT... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING ACROSS CASS...MENARD...LOGAN AND DEWITT COUNTIES FROM THE NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST BETWEEN 315 AND 400 PM. TAKE SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING AS THESE STRONG STORhMS APPROACH. THIS WILL GIVE YOU PROTECTION FROM DEADLY LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL... GUSTY WINDS TO 45 MPH AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PALMER
Special weather statement, May 24, 3:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
ILZ042>048-050>057-059>063-242200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 356 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD...DECATUR AND CHAMPAIGN IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 350 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 30 TO 35 MILES NORTHWEST THROUGH NORTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD FROM CHANDLERVILLE THROUGH PETERSBURG TO JUST WEST OF LINCOLN ILLINOIS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH CASS...MENARD AND LOGAN COUNTIES INTO SANGAMON COUNTY AND THE SPRINGFIELD AREA BETWEEN 400 AND 500 PM. A LINE OF STRONG STORMS WAS LOCATED NORTH OF CHAMPAIGN AND DANVILLE. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS CHAMPAIGN AND VERMILION COUNTIES BETWEEN 400 AND 5 00 PM. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 00 PM CDT FOR LOGAN AND DEWITT COUNTIES IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS. PALMER
Special weather statement, May 24, 4:32 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
ILZ017-018-025>031-034>038-040-041-242330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 427 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 900 PM... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS...WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS OVER WESTERN FULTON ...NORTHWEST PEORIA...MASON...AND EASTERN SCHUYLER COUNTIES. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 46 MPH. REMEMBER..LIGHTNING MAY STRIKE SOME MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT CLOUD. BUCKINGHAM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, McDonough, Warren | 55 min |
| May 24, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria | 50 min |
| May 24, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 59 min |
| May 24, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Woodford | 50 min |
| May 24, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Menard | 28 min |
| May 24, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Mason, Schuyler | 56 min |
| May 24, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 54 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1994Every 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.