Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1994, 6:14 PM CDT for Champaign County, Illinois. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 1994, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 1994, 6:58 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Champaign County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 342 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
- 1135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSPI 132316 RRA SVRSPI ILC019-140000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 614 PM CDT SAT AUG 13 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY AT 6 10 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHAMPAIGN...NEAR LAKE OF THE WOODS. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE CHAMPAIGN...URBANA...LEVERETT.. SAVOY...TOLONO...AND SIDNEY. TAKE SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDINGF. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LIGHTNING KILLS...SO STAY OFF OF TELEPHONES. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. $$ PEARSON
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 13, 4:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
ILZ017-018-025>031-034>038-040-041-132235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 437 PM CDT SAT AUG 13 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING UNTIL 1000 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...PEORIA...WOODFORD... TAZEWELL...MCLEAN...MASON...SCHUYLER...AND FULTON...UNTIL 1000 PM CDT. AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED SOUTH OF A LINE FROM BURLINGTON TO TOLUCA...IN EASTERN MARSHALL COUNTY...A 430 PM CDT. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE LOCATED SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MINONK TO SOUTH OF BURLINGTON BY 530 PM CDT. EXPECT HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE HAIL WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. AT THIS TIME...NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS ...HOWEVER THEY MAY INTENSIFY AT ANY MOMENT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. HUNTER
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 4:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
ILZ042>048-050>057-059>063-132245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 444 PM CDT SAT AUG 13 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS THROUGH 10 PM... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...EXCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF MONTGOMERY...CUMBERLAND...AND CLARK. AT 4 35 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A 15 MILE WIND BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 35 MILES SOUTH OF QUINCY...TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...TO 30 MILES NORTH OF CHAMPAIGN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONGEST OF THESE STORMS WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...10 MILES WEST OF ATHENS. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE THROUGH SPRINGFIELD AROUND 5 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. PEARSON
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 4:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
ILZ042>048-050>057-059>063-132245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 444 PM CDT SAT AUG 13 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS THROUGH 10 PM... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...EXCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF MONTGOMERY...CUMBERLAND...AND CLARK. AT 4 35 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A 15 MILE WIND BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 35 MILES SOUTH OF QUINCY...TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...TO 30 MILES NORTH OF CHAMPAIGN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONGEST OF THESE STORMS WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...10 MILES WEST OF ATHENS. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE THROUGH SPRINGFIELD AROUND 5 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. PEARSON
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 5:29 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
ILZ017-018-025>031-034>038-040-041-132330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 529 PM CDT SAT AUG 13 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL ILLINOIS... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM COLFAX...IN NORTHEAST MCLEAN COUNTY...TO BEARDSTOWN AT 520 PM CDT. ANOTHER AREA OF MAINLY SHOWERS EXTENDED FROM MINONK...IN NORTHEAST WOODFORD COUNTY...TO JUST SOUTHWEST OF MACOMB. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH...AND WILL BE SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM JUST SOUTHEAST OF MINONK TO JUST SOUTH OF MACOMB BY 630 PM CDT. HEAVY RAINS AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 1000 PM CDT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. HIGH WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. HUNTER/OUSLEY
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 5:52 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
ILZ042>048-050>057-059>063-132350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 552 PM CDT SAT AUG 13 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...EXCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF MONTGOMERY... CUMBERLAND...AND CLARK UNTIL 10 PM CDT. AT 5 45 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY NORTHWEST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM 40 MILES NORTH OF ST. LOUIS MO...NEAR PEARL IL...TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD...NEAR GIRARD...TO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHAMPAIGN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AND HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...NEAR PALMYRA TO 20 MILES EAST OF SPRINGFIELD...NEAR LANESVILLE. THE STRONGEST STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. PEARSON
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 5:53 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
ILZ042>048-050>057-059>063-132350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 552 PM CDT SAT AUG 13 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...EXCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF MONTGOMERY... CUMBERLAND...AND CLARK UNTIL 10 PM CDT. AT 5 45 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY NORTHWEST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM 40 MILES NORTH OF ST. LOUIS MO...NEAR PEARL IL...TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD...NEAR GIRARD...TO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHAMPAIGN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AND HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...NEAR PALMYRA TO 20 MILES EAST OF SPRINGFIELD...NEAR LANESVILLE. THE STRONGEST STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGH TNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. PEARSON
Nearby
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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.