Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1999, 4:25 PM CDT for Bureau County, Henry County, Illinois. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 1999, 4:25 PM CDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1999, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bureau County, IL, Henry County, IL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 4:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Kewanee, IL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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.
NWS Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 22, 2:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 2:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 210 PM CDT THU APR 22 1999 LTST SFC ANALYS SHOWS LOW PRES OVR SRN IA WITH QUASI-STATIONARY BOUNDARY MEANDERING ACRS ERN KS/NRN MO/ERN IA/WCTRL IL. 12Z UA ANALYS SHOWS H500 LOW OVR IDAHO WITH 70+KT JET ROTATING ARND BASE OF TROF AND INTO PLAINS. 60-80M HGT FALLS NOTED S OF THE LOW WITH 130KT H300 JET STILL DROPPING DOWN BACKSIDE OF TROF WHICH WUD SUPPORT FURTHER DIGGING. SHORTWV ACRS KS COMBINED WITH STG DIVERGENCE IN LEFT EXIT REGION OF H500 JET PUNCHING INTO PLAINS HELPG TO IGNITE TSTMS OVR KS WHICH ARE NOW MOVG THRU NWRN MO. FCST PROBS INCLUDE POPS/POTENTIAL FOR SVR WX/FLOODING. PIECES APPEARS TO BE COMING TOGETHER FOR SVR WX ACRS PTNS OF ERN IA/NWRN IL. H500 JET/MID LVL SHORTWV ARE FCST TO LIFT ACRS AREA AND INTERSECT FNTL BNDRY THIS EVE. FAVORABLE SHEAR PROFILE EXISTS ALG AND S OF BNDRY TO SUPPORT ISOLD SUPERCELLS AND TORNADOES/WIND DAMAGE WITH THIS AREA GENERALLY ALG AND S OF I-80. STG SFC HEATG ONGOING ALG AND S OF BNDRY WITH TEMPS WELL INTO 70S KBRL 79 DEG). THIS WL HELP DESTABILIZE ATMOS FURTHER LEADING TO INTENSIFICATION OF TSTM ACTVTY AS IT MOVES OUT OF MO INTO SRN IA/WCTRL IL. 12Z AVN/NGM APPEAR TO BE VERIFYING BETTER WITH SYNOPTIC SCALE FEATURES AT 18Z THAN ETA SO WL FOLLOW ACCORDINGLY. LUKS AS THO WERE LUKG AT A 6HR OR SO PD OF VERY HVY RAINFALL MAINLY FM 00Z-06Z. OVRNGT RAINS DUMPED 1 TO 1.5 INCHES OVR NRN PTNS OF CWA WITH AMTS ROUGHLY AN INCH OR LESS FURTHER S. 6 HRLY FFG VALUES ARE RUNNING CLOSE TO 1.5 TO 2 INCHES. EXPCT TO SEE WIDESPREAD 1 TO 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN ACRS CWA WITH HIGHER AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 3 INCHES PSBL. WL CONT WITH FLOOD WATCH FOR TNGT. AGAIN FEEL HEAVY RAIN THREAT WL BE MAINLY THIS EVE BUT EFFECTS ON AREA RVRS WL LAST LONG INTO WEEKEND. FLASH FLOODG ALSO A THREAT THO WITH FAIRLY QUICK STORM MOTION THIS SHUD DIMINISH POTL FOR A LOT OF PROBS. SHORTWV AND ASSOCD LIFT WL SCOOT N OF AREA OVRNGT WHEREBY POPS/HVY RAIN THREAT WL DIMINISH. WL HANG ON WITH LOW POPS FRI MORNG BEFORE DRYING THINGS OUT AS COOL CANADIAN HIGH PRES BUILDS SWD. CANADIAN HIGH WL SHIFT FNTL BNDRY AND RAIN CHCS WELL TO OUR S OVR WEEKEND. WUD THINK COOL GIVEN STRENGTH OF HIGH THO EXPCT TO SEE A RETURN OF SUNSHINE WHICH SHUD OFFSET COOLG SOME. END RESULT WL BE DRY WX WITH NEAR/SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL TEMPS OVR WEEKEND. ...3 TO 5 DAY... MEDIUM RANGE MDLS ALL AGREE ON SOME WEAKENING OF WRN US UPR LOW OVR UPCOMING WEEKEND BEFORE EJECTG IT NEWD INTO PLAINS ON MONDAY AS UPSTREAM KICKER DROPS INTO PAC NW. TIMING DIFFS AMONG MDLS. LTST NOGAPS NOW IN LINE WITH FASTER MRF WHICH BRINGS SYS INTO AREA LATE MONDAY/TUESDAY. PRVS FCST HAS MONDAY DRY SO WL INTRODUCE CHC POPS AND CONT INTO TUESDAY. .DVN... IL...FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL. IA...FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST. 05
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 22, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Bureau | 47 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.