Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1994, 3:06 PM CDT for Bureau County, Illinois. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 1994, 3:06 PM CDT (20:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1994, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 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, 8.1 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 993 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KPIA 032006 RRA SVRPIA ILC011-032045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 306 PM CDT WED AUG 3 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEORIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...NORTHEASTERN BUREAU COUNTY AT 305 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE TOWN OF DOVER...36 MILES WEST OF MARSEILLES. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ZEARING...ARLINGTON...AND CHERRY. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! HUNTER/MILLER
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 3, 1:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
ILZ017-025>027-034-035-040-031915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 114 PM CDT WED AUG 3 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS... THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED WEST OF A LINE FROM MENDOTA TO QUINCY AT 110 PM. THESE STORMS WILL BE ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM LASALLE TO MACOMB BY 200 PM. HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. I F YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. HUNTER/MILLER
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 1:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
ILZ017-018-025>031-034>038-040-041-031950- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 148 PM CDT WED AUG 3 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 800 PM... HEAT AND HUMIDITY HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN ILLINOIS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. AS A RESULT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR ALL OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 800 PM. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM PRINCETON TO MACOMB AT 145 PM. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO EXTEND FROM ABOUT LASALLE TO CANTON TO BEARDSTOWN BY 300 PM. HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV...FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MILLER
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 1:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
ILZ017-018-025>031-034>038-040-041-031950- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 148 PM CDT WED AUG 3 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 800 PM... HEAT AND HUMIDITY HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN ILLINOIS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. AS A RESULT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR ALL OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 800 PM. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM PRINCETON TO MACOMB AT 145 PM. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO EXTEND FROM ABOUT LASALLE TO CANTON TO BEARDSTOWN BY 300 PM. HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. AT SIGNS OFn AN IMPENDING STORM...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV...FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MILLER
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 2:55 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
ILZ017-018-025>031-034>038-040-041-030900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 256 AM CDT WED AUG 3 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED WEST OF A LINE FROM JUST SOUTHEAST OF MENDOTA TO JUST WEST OF MT STERLING AT 250 PM. THESE STORMS WILL BE LOCATED ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM LASALLE TO BEARDSTOWN BY 400 PM. HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 800 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST STVATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. HUNTER/MILLER
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 2:56 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
ILZ017-018-025>031-034>038-040-041-032100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO EXPIRATION AND TIME... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 256 PM CDT WED AUG 3 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED WEST OF A LINE FROM JUST SOUTHEAST OF MENDOTA TO JUST WEST OF MT STERLING AT 250 PM. THESE STORMS WILL BE LOCATED ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM LASALLE TO BEARDSTOWN BY 400 PM. HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 800 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. HUNTER/MILLER
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 2:57 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
ILZ017-018-025>031-034>038-040-041-032100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO EXPIRATION AND TIME... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 256 PM CDT WED AUG 3 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED WEST OF A LINE FROM JUST SOUTHEAST OF MENDOTA TO JUST WEST OF MT STERLING AT 250 PM. THESE STORMS WILL BE LOCATED ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM LASALLE TO BEARDSTOWN BY 400 PM. HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 800 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIdO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. HUNTER/MILLER
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.