Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1994, 1:30 PM CDT for Henderson County, Warren County, Illinois. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 1994, 1:30 PM CDT (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1994, 2:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Henderson County, IL, Warren County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 455 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
- 1299 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 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 251831 RRA SVRPIA ILC071-187-251915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 130 PM CDT THU AUG 25 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEORIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...HENDERSON COUNTY...WARREN COUNTY AT 125 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING THROUGH OQUAWKA IN NORTHERN HENDERSON COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO WARREN COUNTY IN THE NEXT 15 MINUTES. TOWNS IN AND ALONG THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE ROZETTA...ELEANOR...MONMOUTH AND UTAH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCA&SIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES. MOGGED
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 25, 1:14 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
ILZ017-025>028-034-251915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 114 PM CDT THU AUG 25 1994 ...STRONG STORMS MOVING INTO HENDERSON COUNTY... SHORTLY AFTER 1 PM...STRONG STORMS WERE MOVING INTO HENDERSON COUNTY FROM SOUTHEASTERN IOWA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. EXPECT THESE STORMS TO PERSIST IN HENDERSON COUNTY AND MOVE INTO ADJACENT WARREN COUNTY THROUGH 2 PM. THESE STORMS APPEAR TO BE HEAVY RAINMAKERS BUT WITH VERY UNSTABLE AIR ACROSS THE AREA... SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD NOT BE RULED OUT. EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND EVEN SMALL HAIL WITH THESE STORMS. MOGGED
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 1:15 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
ILZ017-025>028-034-251915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 114 PM CDT THU AUG 25 1994 ...STRONG STORMS MOVING INTO HENDERSON COUNTY... SHORTLY AFTER 1 PM...STRONG STORMS WERE MOVING INTO HENDERSON COUNTY FROM SOUTHEASTERN IOWA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. EXPECT THESE STORMS TO PERSIST IN HENDERSON COUNTY AND MOVE INTO ADJACENT WARREN COUNTY THROUGH 2 PM. THESE STORMS APPEAR TO BE HEAVY RAINMAKERS BUT WITH VERY UNSTABLE AIR ACROSS THE AREA... SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD NOT BE RULED OUT. EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND EVEN SMALL HAIL WITH THESE STORMS. MOGGED
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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.