Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 1992, 12:35 PM CDT for Clinton County, Iowa. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 1992, 12:35 PM CDT (17:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1992, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clinton County, IA
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 348 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
- 475 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -301 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 292 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 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 KMLI 171735
TORMLI
IAC045-171800-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOLINE IL
1235 PM CDT WED JUN 17 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE EXTREME EAST PART OF IOWA
EASTERN CLINTON
AT 1230 PM...SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR LOW MOOR IOWA...
MOVING NORTHEAST TOWARD CLINTON IOWA.
IF YOUR LIVE IN CLINTON OR SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES...TAKE SHELTER
NOW!!
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
REPORTS OF TORNADOES OR TORNADO DAMAGE SHOULD BE GIVEN TO A LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...FIND SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...TAKE SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH...
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
COOPER/MEYERWhat 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, Jun 17, 10:37 AM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
IAZ008-ILZ001-WIZ018-171645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DUBUQUE IA 1037 AM CDT WED JUN 17 1992 AT 1035 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED NEAR THE CITY OF FAIRPLAY IN GRANT COUNTY WISCONSIN OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF THE CITY OF DUBUQUE. THE STORM WAS PRODUCING...SMALL HAIL ...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING AS WELL AS STRONG WINDS. OTHERWISE...ANOTHER DEVELOPING STORM WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHEASTERN JONES COUNTY NEAR THE CITY OF OXFORD JUNCTION OR 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE CITY OF DUBUQE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND STRONG WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. PERSONS IN SOUTHWESTERN GRANT COUNTY...IN OR NEAR THE CITIES OF GEORGETOWN AND PLATTEVILLE AND PERSONS IN LAFAYETTE COUNTY NEAR LESLIE AND ELK GROVE SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THIS STORM AS IT APPROACHES. PERSONS IN JACKSON AND JO-DAVIES COUNTIES FROM MONMOUTH NORTHEAST THROUGH BELLVUE AND FROM BLANDING THROUGH WARREN SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THIS STORM AS IT APPROACHES. MOVE INDOORS FOR SAFETY AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION SHOULD THESE STORMS BECOME SEVERE. DEROY h NNNN
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 10:49 AM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
ILZ004-IAZ015-171645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOLINE IL 1045 AM CDT WED JUN 17 1992 THUNDERSTORMS HAD RAPIDLY DEVELOPED ACROSS EAST IOWA THIS MORNING. AT 1040 AM CDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF DUBUQUE IOWA...TO TIPTON IOWA...EXTENDING TO THE SOUTHWEST NEAR CONESVILLE IOWA. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE QUAD CITIES...MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE LATE MORNING THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO VERY MOIST...UNSTABLE AIR AS THEY MOVE TO THE EAST. THESE CONDITIONS ARE FAVERABLE FOR RAPID AND STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. IF YOU LIVE IN THE PATH OF THESE APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS...BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS TO A PLACE OF SAFETY AS THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DEADLY LIGHTNING... HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. THE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES OF DEWITT IOWA...MUSCATINE IOWA...AND THE QUAD CITIES CAN EXPECT THE ARRIVAL OF THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN 1115 AM AND 1145 AM CDT. MEYER
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 11:27 AM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
IAZ008-ILZ001-WIZ018-171730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DUBUQUE IA 1127 AM CDT WED JUN 17 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR BOTH JO-DAVIES IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS AND LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS... AT 1125 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM THE CITY OF SPRAGUEVILLE IN JACKSON COUNTY 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE CITY OF DUBUQUE NORTHEAST THROUGH CENTRAL JO-DAVIES COUNTY AND THROUGH THE CITY OF FAYETTE IN LAFAYETTE COUNTY 35 MILES TO THE NORTHEAST OF DUBUQUE. THE STRONGEST OF THE STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR SPRAGUEVILLE IN JACKSON COUNTY...WOODBINE IN JO-DAVIES COUNTY...AND FAYETTE IN LAFAYETTE COUNTY. ALL ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHEAST TO NORTHEAST OF THE CITY OF DUBUQE. THE STORMS WERE PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND DEADLY LIGHTNINAS WELL AS STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN SOUTHEASTERN JACKSON COUNTY...CENTRAL AND EASTERN JO-DAVIES COUNTY AND CENTRAL AND EASTERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY APPROACH AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER SHOULD ANY OF THESE STORMS BECOME SEVERE. DEROY NNNN
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 11:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
IAZ008-ILZ001-WIZ018-171730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DUBUQUE IA 1127 AM CDT WED JUN 17 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR BOTH JO-DAVIES IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS AND LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS... AT 1125 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM THE CITY OF SPRAGUEVILLE IN JACKSON COUNTY 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE CITY OF DUBUQUE NORTHEAST THROUGH CENTRAL JO-DAVIES COUNTY AND THROUGH THE CITY OF FAYETTE IN LAFAYETTE COUNTY 35 MILES TO THE NORTHEAST OF DUBUQUE. THE STRONGEST OF THE STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR SPRAGUEVILLE IN JACKSON COUNTY...WOODBINE IN JO-DAVIES COUNTY...AND FAYETTE IN LAFAYETTE COUNTY. ALL ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHEAST TO NORTHEAST OF THE CITY OF DUBUQE. THE STORMS WERE PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WELL AS STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN SOUTHEASTERN -JACKSON COUNTY...CENTRAL AND EASTERN JO-DAVIES COUNTY AND CENTRAL AND EASTERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY APPROACH AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER SHOULD ANY OF THESE STORMS BECOME SEVERE. DEROY
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 11:35 AM CDT, 1 hour before
IAZ008-ILZ001-WIZ018-171730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED...FOR LAFAYETTE COUNTY... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DUBUQUE IA 1134 AM CDT WED JUN 17 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR BOTH JO-DAVIES IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS AND LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN... AT 1125 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM THE CITY OF SPRAGUEVILLE IN JACKSON COUNTY 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE CITY OF DUBUQUE NORTHEAST THROUGH CENTRAL JO-DAVIES COUNTY AND THROUGH THE CITY OF FAYETTE IN LAFAYETTE COUNTY 35 MILES TO THE NORTHEAST OF DUBUQUE. THE STRONGEST OF THE STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR SPRAGUEVILLE IN JACKSON COUNTY...WOODBINE IN JO-DAVIES COUNTY...AND FAYETTE IN LAFAYETTE COUNTY. ALL ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHEAST TO NORTHEAST OF THE CITY OF DUBUQE. THE STORMS WERE PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WELL AS STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN SOUTHEASTERN JACKSON COUNTY...CENTRAL AND EASTERN JO-DAVIES COUNTY AND CENTRAL AND EASTERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY APPROACH AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER SHOULD ANY OF THESE STORMS BECOME SEVERE. DEROY
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 12:19 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
IAZ008-ILZ001-WIZ018-171815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DUBUQUE IA 1220 PM CDT WED JUN 17 1992 AT 1219 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM NEAR THE QUAD CITIES IN SOUTHEAST IOWA NORTHEASTWARD TO MADISON IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN. THERE WAS NO PRECIPITATION FALLING IN THE TRI-STATE AREA AT 1215 PM CDT. THE STORMS WERE TO THE EAST OF THE TRI-S TAREA AND WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. OTHERWISE...MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES COVERED THE TRI-STATES AND TEMPERATURE WAS IN THE MIDDLE 80S. DEROY NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 12:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henry | 57 min |
| Jun 17, 12:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Lee | 42 min |
| Jun 17, 12:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton, Scott | 41 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.