Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1994, 7:06 PM CDT for Hancock County, McDonough County, Schuyler County, Illinois. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 1994, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1994, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hancock County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Schuyler County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 407 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
- 1670 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KPIA 260006 RRA SVRPIA ILC067-109-169-260100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 706 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEORIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...SOUTHEASTERN HANCOCK COUNTY ...SOUTHWESTERN MCDONOUGH COUNTY...SCHUYLER COUNTY AT 7:04 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED IN EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN HANCOCK COUNTY ...29 MILES SOUTH OF BURLINGTON. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL THREATEN THE COMMUNITY OF ST. MARY BY 7:14 PM...COLMAR AROUND 7:17 PM...BIRMINGHAM AROUND 7:28 PM AND BROOKLYN AROUND 7:34 PM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. BREESER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Bureau, Putnam | 50 min |
| Jun 26, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall | 47 min |
| Jun 26, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell | 41 min |
| Jun 26, 5:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell | 26 min |
| Jun 26, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | McLean, Woodford | 43 min |
| Jun 26, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Logan, Mason | 37 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.