Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 5, 1994, 3:37 PM CST for Jersey County, Illinois. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 5, 1994, 3:37 PM CST (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 5, 1994, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jersey County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 267 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
- 566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 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, Nov 5, 2:18 PM CST, 1 hour 19 minutes before
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ILZ058-099-052200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 254 PM CST SAT NOV 5 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH GREENE AND JERSEY COUNTIES IN ILLINOIS... AT 250 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE ILLINOIS COUNTIES OF GREENE AND JERSERY THE STORMS WERE LOCATED FROM CARROLLTON IN GREENE COUNTY TO GRAFTON IN SOUTHERN JERSEY COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH JERSEYVILLE AND WRIGHTS AREAS BY 315 PM. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS AND WIND GUSTS AROUND 40 MPH. DLF/RP
Special weather statement, Nov 5, 2:56 PM CST, 41 minutes before
ILZ058-099-052200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 254 PM CST SAT NOV 5 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH GREENE AND JERSEY COUNTIES IN ILLINOIS... AT 250 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE ILLINOIS COUNTIES OF GREENE AND JERSERY THE STORMS WERE LOCATED FROM CARROLLTON IN GREENE COUNTY TO GRAFTON IN SOUTHERN JERSEY COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVINGR NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH JERSEYVILLE AND WRIGHTS AREAS BY 315 PM. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS AND WIND GUSTS AROUND 40 MPH. DLF/RP
Special weather statement, Nov 5, 3:09 PM CST, 28 minutes before
MOZ061-063-064-052215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 309 PM CST SAT NOV 5 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS WERE MOVING THROUGH ST CHARLES AND WESTERN ST LOUIS COUNTIES... AT 305 PM...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM WESTERN ST CHARLES SOUTH THROUGH SOUTHER ST LOUIS COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS FROM THE ARNOLD AREA OF WIND GUSTS AROUND 40 MPH WITH THESE STORMS. THE STORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH ST CHARLES AND ST LOUIS COUNTIES THROUGH 4 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 7 PM. PEOPLE SHOULD MONITOR THE LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS CLOSELY AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER IF SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPS. DLF/RP
Special weather statement, Nov 5, 3:12 PM CST, 25 minutes before
MOZ061-063-064-052215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 309 PM CST SAT NOV 5 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS WERE MOVING THROUGH ST CHARLES AND WESTERN ST LOUIS COUNTIES... AT 305 PM...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM WESTERN ST CHARLES SOUTH THROUGH SOUTHER ST LOUIS COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS FROM THE ARNOLD AREA OF WIND GUSTS AROUND 40 MPH WITH THESE STORMS. THE STORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH ST CHARLES AND ST LOUIS COUNTIES THROUGH 4 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 7 PM. PEOPLE SHOULD MONITOR THE LOCAxL WEATHER CONDITIONS CLOSELY AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER IF SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPS. DLF/RP
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 1:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 28 min |
| Nov 5, 3:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis | 26 min |
| Nov 5, 3:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin, Madison | 29 min |
| Nov 5, 4:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin | 31 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.