Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1994, 5:21 PM CDT for Bureau County, Illinois. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 1994, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 1994, 5:57 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bureau County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 361 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
- 371 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 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 012225 RRA SVRPIA ILC011-012330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 521 PM CDT MON AUG 1 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEORIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...EASTERN BUREAU COUNTY AT 520 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR DE PUE...31 MILES WEST OF MARSEILLES. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF SEATONVILLE...LADD...AND DALZELL BY 600 PM. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! WATERHOUSE T
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, Aug 1, 4:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
ILZ042-043-047-048-050>053-059-060-012145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 400 PM CDT MON AUG 1 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS... WEATHER RADAR AT 357 PM CDT INDICATED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...NEAR PETERSBURG...TO 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS MOST OF SANGAMON COUNTY INCLUDING THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD...AND NORTHERN MACOUPIN COUNTY BY 5 PM. TAKE SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING FOR THE PROTECTION FROM THESE STORMS. 50 MPH WINDS CAN KNOCK DOWN OLD TREE LIMBS WHICH MAY FALL ON POWER LINES...VEHICLES AND PEOPLE. zMOTORISTS SHOULD EXPECT VISIBILITIES NEAR ZERO IN HEAVY RAINFALL FROM THESE STORMS. SKIPPER /PALMER
Special weather statement, Aug 1, 4:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
ILZ017-018-025>031-034>038-040-041-012215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 410 PM CDT MON AUG 1 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 410 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM COLFAX...IN NORTHEASTERN MCLEAN COUNTY...WEST TO THE WOODFORD/MCLEAN COUNTY BORDER...THEN SOUTHWEST THROUGH CENTRAL TAZEWELL AND MASON COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH. HIGH WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, Aug 1, 4:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
ILZ017-018-025>031-034>038-040-041-012215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 410 PM CDT MON AUG 1 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 410 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM COLFAX...IN NORTHEASTERN MCLEAN COUNTY...WEST TO THE WOODFORD/MCLEAN COUNTY BORDER...THEN SOUTHWEST THROUGH CENTRAL TAZEWELL AND MASON COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH. HIGH WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, Aug 1, 5:10 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
ILZ017-018-025>031-034>038-040-041-012310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 510 PM CDT MON AUG 1 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 505 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM LEXINGTON...IN NORTHERN MCLEAN COUNTY...SOUTHWEST TO BLOOMINGTON...THEN WEST INTO CARLOCK...IN SOUTHERN WOODFORD COUNTY AND MACKINAW IN EASTERN TAZEWELL COUNTY. THESE STORMS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH. HIGH WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. WATERHOUSE
Special weather statement, Aug 1, 5:11 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
ILZ042>048-050>057-059>063-012315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 511 PM CDT MON AUG 1 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND HAVE DEVELOPED OVER EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. AT 505 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF CHAMPAIGN...NEAR GIBSON CITY TO 50 MILES SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD NEAR HILLSBORO. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND SHOULD MOVE ACROSS SHELBY...CHRISTIAN...MACON...PIATT AND NORTHWESTERN CHAMPAIGN COUNTIES. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS TO 45 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. SKIPPER
Special weather statement, Aug 1, 5:13 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
ILZ017-018-025>031-034>038-040-041-012310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 510 PM CDT MON AUG 1 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 505 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM LEXINGTON...IN NORTHERN MCLEAN COUNTY...SOUTHWEST TO BLOOMINGTON...THEN WEST INTO CARLOCK...IN SOUTHERN WOODFORD COUNTY AND MACKINAW IN EASTERN TAZEWELL COUNTY. THESE STNORMS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH. HIGH WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. WATERHOUSE
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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.