Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1994, 7:18 PM CDT for 4 counties in Illinois. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 1994, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 1994, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Champaign County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Vermilion County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 322 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
- 659 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1380 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSPI 140019 RRA SVRSPI ILC019-041-045-183-140100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 718 PM CDT SAT AUG 13 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...SOUTHEASTERN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY ...NORTHEASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY...NORTHERN EDGAR COUNTY ...SOUTHERN VERMILION COUNTY AT 712 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHAMPAIGN...ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF VILLA GROVE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE HUME...CHRISMAN...ALLERTON...SIDELL AND GEORGETOWN. TAKE SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LIGHTNING KILLS...SO STAY OFF OF TELEPHONES. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. $$ AUTEN
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, 6:55 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
ILZ017-018-025>031-034>038-040-041-140100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 655 PM CDT SAT AUG 13 1994 ...THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE COUNTIES NO LONGER UNDER EFFECT OF THIS WATCH INCLUDE PEORIA...WOODFORD...TAZEWELL...MCLEAN...MASON...FULTON...AND SCHUYLER. AT 645 PM CDT...ONLY SCATTERED SHOWERS REMAINED OVER SOUTHERN MCLEAN COUNTY...HOWEVER ALL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAD MOVED INTO EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND INDIANA. HUNTER/OUSLEY
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 6:56 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
ILZ017-018-025>031-034>038-040-041-140100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 655 PM CDT SAT AUG 13 1994 ...THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE COUNTIES NO LONGER UNDER EFFECT OF THIS WATCH INCLUDE PEORIA...WOODFORD...TAZEWELL...MCLEAN...MASON...FULTON...AND SCHUYLER. AT 645 PM CDT...ONLY SCATTERED SHOWERS6 REMAINED OVER SOUTHERN MCLEAN COUNTY...HOWEVER ALL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAD MOVED INTO EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND INDIANA. HUNTER/OUSLEY
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 6:56 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
ILZ042>048-050>057-059>063-140050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 656 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 6 55 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY NORTHWEST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD...NEAR NAKOMIS TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF CHAMPAIGN TO DANVILLE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AND HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE SCATTERED ALONG A LINE FROM 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...NEAR MORRISONVILLE TO CHAMPAIGN. 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, 6:57 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
ILZ042>048-050>057-059>063-140050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 656 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 6 55 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY NORTHWEST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD...NEAR NAKOMIS TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF CHAMPAIGN TO DANVILLE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AND HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE SCATTERED ALONG A LINE FROM 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...NEAR MORRISONVILLE TO CHAMPAIGN. 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, 6:59 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
ILZ017-018-025>031-034>038-040-041-140100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 659 PM CDT SAT AUG 13 1994 ...THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE COUNTIES NO LONGER UNDER EFFECT OF THIS WATCH INCLUDE PEORIA...WOODFORD...TAZEWELL...MCLEAN...MASON...FULTON...AND SCHUYLER. AT 645 PM CDT...ONLY SCATTERED SHOWERS REMAINED OVER SOUTHERN MCLEAN COUNTY...HOWEVER ALL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAD MOVED INTO EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND INDIANA. HUNTER/OUSLEY
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 7:00 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
ILZ017-018-025>031-034>038-040-041-140100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 659 PM CDT SAT AUG 13 1994 ...THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE COUNTIES NO LONGER UNDER EFFECT OF THIS WATCH INCLUDE PEORIA...WOODFORD...TAZEWELL...MCLEAN...MASON...FULTON...AND SCHUYLER. AT 645 PMP CDT...ONLY SCATTERED SHOWERS REMAINED OVER SOUTHERN MCLEAN COUNTY...HOWEVER ALL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAD MOVED INTO EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND INDIANA. HUNTER/OUSLEY
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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.