Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Aug 8, 1994, 4:38 PM CDT for Vermilion County, Illinois. It was in force for 22 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 1994, 4:38 PM CDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1994, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vermilion County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 302 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
- 1114 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 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 KSPI 082139 TORSPI ILC183-082200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 438 PM CDT MON AUG 8 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...EXTREME NORTHEASTERN VERMILION COUNTY AT 431 PM CDT...VERMILION COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICES REPORTED A TORNADO 20 MILES NORTH OF DANVILLE...NEAR THE TOWN OF HOOPESTON. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. RESIDENTS OF NORTHEAST VERMILION COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF CHENEYVILLE...SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR SAFER SHELTER. ACT NOW TO SAVE YOUR LIFE! $$ GEELHART &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 1 hour 23 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, 1 hour 21 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, 17 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, 16 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, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Piatt | 50 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
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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.