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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 1992, 8:41 PM CDT for Henry County, Illinois. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1992, 8:41 PM CDT (01:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1992, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henry County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 385 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
- 956 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 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 200141
TORMLI
ILC073-195-200215-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOLINE IL
841 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF ILLINOIS
HENRY...SOUTHWEST WHITESIDE
AT 8 35 PM CDT WHITESIDE COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES
WEST OF ERIE ILLINOIS MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH.
SOME CITIES/TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... GREEN ROCK
AND GENESEO WHERE TORNADO CAN BE EXPECTED BETWEEN 8 45 AND 9 PM.
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.
ATTN 1ISP 7 AND 1
DICKEY 0140ZWhat 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 19, 4:20 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 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 NNNN
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 4:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 47 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, 2 hours 51 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
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 6:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
ILZ004-IAZ015-200045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOLINE IL 650 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE BISTATE AREA UNTIL 9 PM CDT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR DES MOINES COUNTY IOWA HAD EXPIRED AS OF 645 PM CDT... AT 645 PM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT BLEW DOWN NUMEROUS TREES IN NORTH DES MOINES COUNTY IOWA...HAD MOVED SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE RIVER INTO HENDERSON COUNTY OF ILLINOIS. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS FOLLOWING THE FIRST SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF BURLINGTON IOWA...ALSO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. NORTH OF THE QUAD CITIES...IN NORTHWEST CLINTON COUNTY...ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED. THIS STORM WAS 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF DEWITT IOWA VERY CLOSE TO THE COMMUNITY OF LOST NATION...AND COULD PRODUCE SOME VERY GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS. IF LIVE NEAR...OR IN THE PATH...OF ANY OF THIS EVENINGS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...REMAIN ALERT TO WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH. MEYER
Local storm report, Jun 19, 8:30 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DUBUQUE IA
750 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1992
...STORM REPORTS OF FRIDAY TORNADO WATCH #414...
TIME COUNTY EVENT AND LOCATION
502 PM CDT CLAYTON FUNNEL CLOUD SIGHTED BY A TROOPER 10 MILES
NORTH OF ELKADER.
512 PM CDT CLAYTON CITIZEN REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD WEST OF
ELKADER.
523 PM CDT CLAYTON LARGE HAIL 3/4 INCH HEAVY RAIN IN TOWN
OF ELKADER.
523 PM CDT CLAYTON FRONT END OF PICKUP TRUCK LIFTED UP 4 TO
5 MILES SOUTH OF ELKADER.
527 PM CDT CLAYTON POLICE RADIO TOWER REPORTED BLOWN OVER
SOUTH OF ELKADER.
527 PM CDT CLAYTON TREE REPORTED BLOWN OVER A ROAD
536 PM CDT CLAYTON CITIZEN REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR
LITTLEPORT.
502-530 PM CDT CLAYTON POWER LINE REPORTED DOWN...WINDS REPORTED
(TIME NOT KNOWN BUT AT 60 MILES AN HOUR...OLD BARN REPORTED
ESTIMATED) TO HAVE BLOWN OVER...VICINITY OF ELKADER.
555 PM CDT DELAWARE QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED AND 40 MILE
AN HOUR WINDS IN COLESBURG.
602 PM CDT DUBUQUE REPORT OF WINDS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR IN
WORTHINGTON.
703 PM CDT JACKSON REPORT OF WINDS OF 60 MILE AN LHOUR IN
ROWLAND/KOWALSKISpecial weather statement, Jun 19, 8:31 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
IAZ008-ILZ001-WIZ018-200230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DUBUQUE IA 831 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR THE TRI-STATES AREA... AT 820 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAD CANCELLED THE TORNADO WATCH WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE TRI-STATE AREA UNTIL 900 PM CDT. RADAR AT 825 PM INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH HAD AFFECT PARTS OF THE TRI-STATES HAD MOVED SOUTHEAST OUT OF THE TRI-STATE AREA AND HAD WEAKENED. THE OUTLOOK THROUGH MIDNIGHT...PARTLY CLOUDY WITH TEMPERATURES COOLING INTO THE MIDDLE 50S. WINDS WILL BE VARIABLE AT AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR. ROWLAND NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Whiteside | 19 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.