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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Quad Cities, IA

June 19, 1992Jackson County, Iowa

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1992, 6:46 PM CDT for Jackson County, Iowa. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 19, 1992, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 1992, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area: Whole counties

County Jackson County, IA

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 325 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 650 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Jun 19, 3:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before

IAZ008-ILZ001-WIZ018-192200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND UPDATE FOR DUBUQUE AND VICINITY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DUBUQUE IA
350 AM CDT FRI JUN 19 1992

...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 900 PM CDT...

AT 345 PM CDT...A FEW SHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING 40 MILES WEST AND
SOUTHWEST OF THE CITY OF DUBUQUE...AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN
HOUR.

ELSEWHERE...THERE WERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FARTHER TO THE
WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF THE TRI-STATES...ALSO MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN
HOUR.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH IS ISSUED WHEN CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADO DEVELOPMENT.  NOW IS THE TIME TO PLAN ON WHAT YOU WOULD DO IF A
TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA.

PERSONS IN THE TRI-STATES dSHOULD BE ALERT AND READY TO TAKE ACTION IF
A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
KOWALSKI

Local storm report, Jun 19, 3:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOLINE IL
300 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1992

...ATTN SELS...

FINAL REPORT FOR THUNDERSTORMS ON JUNE 17 1992 / TORNADO WATCH # 387...

TIME CDT                               EVENT
1115 AM     DELMAR IOWA REPORTED SMALL HAIL...CLINTON COUNTY IOWA.

1205 PM     NEW LONDON IOWA REPORTED MARBLE HAIL 1 MILE SOUTH OF NEW
            LONDON.  REPORTED BY FIRE DEPARTMENT...HENRY COUNTY IOWA.

1210 PM     HAIL LARGE ENOUGH TO DO DAMAGE TO CARS REPORTED IN LOWELL
            IOWA BY LOCAL INSURANCE AGENT...HENRY COUNTY IOWA.

1210 PM     LOCAL OBSERVER REPORTED .40 INCH OF RAIN AT KEITHSBURG
            ILLINOIS...MERCER COUNTY ILLINOIS.

1210 PM     MARBLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN ALEDO ILLINOIS BY RADIO
            STATION WRMJ...MERCER COUNTY ILLINOIS.

1210 PM     MERCER COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED STRONG WIND AND A
            FEW TREES DOWN.  WIND SPEED ESTIMATED AT 55 MPH.  THIS
            REPORT NOT RECEIVED UNTIL THE NEXT DAY...MERCER COUNTY IL.

1217 PM     GOLF BALL HAIL REPORTED WEST BURLINGTON IOWA ALONG WITH
            HEAVY RAIN AND A 50 MPH WIND GUST REPORTED BY BURLINGTON
            PD...DES MOINES COUNTY IOWA.

1222 PM     HEAVY RAIN REPORTED IN EAST DAVENPORT IOWA BY TRAINED
            SPOTTER...SCOTT COUNTY IOWA.

1225 PM     HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WIND REPORTED AT BURLINGTON IOWA BY
            BURLINGTON PD...DES MOINES COUNTY IOWA.

1227 PM     GOLF BALL HAIL REPORTED IN NORTH DAVENPORT.  WAS SHOWN ON
            LOCAL TV STATION ON THE 6 PM NEWS...SCOTT COUNTY IOWA.

1230 PM     DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN ELVIRA BY CLINTON COUNTY CD
            ACCUMULATING ON THE GROUND...CLINTON COUNTY IOWA.

1230 PM     PUBLIC REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUD AT LOW MOOR IOWA.  TRUCK FARM
            AT FULTON ILLINOIS CLEARLY SAW THE FUNNEL CLOUD AT LOW MOOR
            AND WATCHED IT MOVE TOWARD CLINTON IOWA AND THEN CROSS THE
            MISSISSIPPI RIVER.  AS FAR AS THEY COULD TELL...IT DID NOT
            TOUCH DOWN.  THE TRUCK FARM IS LOCATED ABOUT 4 MILES EAST
            OF LOW MOOR...CLINTON COUNTY IOWA.

1235 PM     GOLF BALL AND SOFTBALL HAIL REPORTED AT FORT MADISON IOWA.
            SOME CAR WINDSHIELDS WERE SMASHED OUT.  REPORTED BY LEE
            COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE...LEE COUNTY IOWA.

1236 PM     3/4 AND 1 INCH HAIL OBSERVED AT WSO MOLINE ILLINOIS...ROCK
            ISLAND COUNTY ILLINOIS.

1255 PM     GOLF BALL HAIL REPORTED 1 MILE NORTH OF MORRISON ILLINOIS BY
            SPOTTER...WHITESIDE COUNTY ILLINOIS.

1255 PM     GOLF BALL HAIL REPORTED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF GENESEO
            ILLINOIS BY SPOTTER...HENRY COUNTY ILLINOIS.

1255 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED WEST OF ERIE ILLINOIS BY WHITESIDE
            COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE...WHITESIDE COUNTY ILLINOIS.

Local storm report, Jun 19, 4:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOLINE IL
300 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1992

...ATTN SELS...

FINAL REPORT FOR THUNDERSTORMS ON JUNE 17 1992 / TORNADO WATCH # 387...
PART TWO...
TIME CDT                               EVENT

120  PM     F0 TO F1 TORNADO WATCHED BY ILLINOIS STATE TROOPER IN OPEN
            FARM FIELD JUST SOUTH OF DEAR GROVE ILLINOIS...TORNADO WAS
            OBSERVED UNTIL IT DISSIPATED AT 128 PM CDT...WHITESIDE
            COUNTY ILLINOIS.

130  PM     UNCONFIRMED TORNADO TOUCHDOWN REPORTED 5 MILES EAST OF
            WOODHULL ILLINOIS BY GENERAL PUBLIC.  SHERIFF ARRIVED AT
            LOCATION SHORTLY AFTERWARD AND COULD FIND NOTHING.

200 PM      TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A BRIEF WIND GUST TO 50 MPH IN
            GALVA ILLINOIS.  SOME TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES RECEIVED
            DAMAGE.  THE GUST OF WIND LASTED ONLY ABOUT 5 SECONDS.
            ...HENRY COUNTY ILLINOIS.

MEYER

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 4:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

IAZ008-ILZ001-WIZ018-192215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DUBUQUE IA
420 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1992

...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 900 PM CDT...

AT 415 PM CDT...A FEW SHOWERS WERE LOCATED 20 TO 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
DUBUQUE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

ALSO...SOME STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED TO THE NORTH AND SOUTHWEST OF THE
TRI-STATE AREA.  THE STORMS TO THE NORTH WILL BE ENTERING NORTHWEST
CLAYTON COUNTY BY 430 PM AND WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS...SMALL HAIL...
AND WINDS OF 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR.  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

THE THUNDERSTORMS TO THE SOUTHWEST WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR
AND SHOULD PASS TO THE SOUTH OF THE TRI-STATES.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM...AND PERSONS IN THE WATCH
AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF A WARNING IS ISSUED OR YOU
SPOT SEVERE WEATHER CLOSING IN.

IF TIME PERMITS...REPORT YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NEAREST LAW INFORCEMENT
AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.
KOWALSKI

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Special weather statement, Jun 19, 4:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

ILZ004-IAZ015-192245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOLINE IL
445 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1992

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE BISTATE AREA UNTIL
9 PM CDT...

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS HAD DEVELOPED OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL
AND EAST IOWA LATE THIS AFTERNOON.

AT 435 PM AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES
SOUTH OF CEDAR RAPIDS IOWA TO 30 MILES WEST OF MUSCATINE IOWA.  THESE
THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

WEST PARTS OF THE BISTATE...INCLUDING THE COMMUNITIES OF WEST LIBERTY...
CONESVILLE AND COLUMBUS JUNCTION...COULD SEE THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS
BETWEEN 5 AND 530 PM.  THE THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE STILL 60
MILES WEST OF THE QUAD CITIES.

IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH WHERE YOU LIVE...BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR
LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN.  CONDITIONS ARE FAVERABLE FOR
THUNDERSTORMS TO BECOME QUITE STRONG...SO KEEP UP TO DATE WIT]H LATEST
WEATHER INFORMATION IN YOUR AREA.

MEYER

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 5:50 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

ILZ004-IAZ015-192345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOLINE IL
545 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1992

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE BISTATE AREA UNTIL
9 PM CDT...

THUNDERSTORMS WERE BLOWING INTO CENTRAL PARTS OF THE BISTATE THIS
EVENING.

AT 545 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD ENTERED LOUISA...HENRY...AND
DES MOINES COUNTIES OF EAST IOWA.  THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE GUSTY
WINDS...AROUND 50 MPH...ALONG WITH SOME HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN.  IF YOU
LIVE IN THE CITIES OF OR COMMUNITIES OF MORNING SUN OR WAPELLO IN IOWA...
OR KEITHSBURG ILLINOIS ACORSS THE RIVER...BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE
STORMY AND WINDY CONDITIONS.

MEYER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Clayton	29 min
Jun 19, 5:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Clayton	36 min
Jun 19, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Dubuque	29 min
Jun 19, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Delaware	27 min
Jun 19, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Des Moines	35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.