Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1994, 5:25 PM CDT for Piatt County, Illinois. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 1994, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1994, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Piatt County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 327 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
- 1136 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Aug 8, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
ILZ043>046-053>057-082100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 315 PM CDT MON AUG 8 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 310 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS FROM JUST SOUTH OF BLOOMINGTON TO JUST NORTH OF CHAMPAIGN ...URBANA TO DANVILLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHAMPAIGN... BETWEEN MAHOMET AND BELLFLOWER. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING INTO THE CHAMPAIGN...URBANA AREA AROUND 330 PM. BRIEF GUSTY WINDS TO 45 MPH...HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STRONG STORM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GO TO A PLACE OF SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. PALMER
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 3:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
ILZ038-082220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 317 PM CDT MON AUG 8 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER MCLEAN COUNTY... RADAR INDICATES THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT HAS BEGUN IN MCLEAN COUNTY...IN THE VICINITY OF RANDOLPH...7 MILES SOUTH OF BLOOMINGTON..AND JUST SOUTHEAST OF BELLFLOWER...27 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF BLOOMINGTON. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTING WINDS...LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL COULD BE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. BUCKINGHAM
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 4:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
ILZ042>048-050>057-059>063-082225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 421 PM CDT MON AUG 8 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THIS WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM THIS EVENING AND INCLUDES THE SPRINGFIELD...DECATUR...CHAMPAIGN/URBANA...DANVILLE...AND CHARLESTON AREAS. AT 410 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...NORTH OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHAMPAIGN TO 25 MILES OF DANVILLE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. NO THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS AT THIS TIME. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. AUTEN
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 4:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
ILZ042>048-050>057-059>063-082225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 421 PM CDT MON AUG 8 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THIS WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM THIS EVENING AND INCLUDES THE SPRINGFIELD...DECATUR...CHAMPAIGN/URBANA...DANVILLE...AND CHARLESTON AREAS. AT 410 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...NORTH OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHAMPAIGN TO 25 MILES OF DANVILLE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. NO THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS AT THIS TIME. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAtIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. AUTEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign | 49 min |
| Aug 8, 4:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 22 min |
| Aug 8, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Edgar | 50 min |
| Aug 8, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Piatt | 30 min |
| Aug 8, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Edgar | 31 min |
| Aug 8, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon, Piatt | 53 min |
| Aug 8, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark | 40 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.