Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 15, 1992, 3:22 AM CST for Logan County, Illinois. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 1992, 3:22 AM CST (09:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 1992, 4:15 AM CST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Logan County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 345 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
- 556 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 556 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 662 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 KSPI 150922
SVRSPI
ILC107-151015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL
322 AM CST SAT FEB 15 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
SOUTHERN LOGAN
AT 315 AM CST...SANGAMON COUNTY SHERRIFFS OFFICE REPORTED GOLFBALL
SIZED HAIL AT RIVERTON...5 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD.
THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL
MOVE THROUGH THE FOLLOWING TOWNS...BUFFALO HART...LAKE FORK AND
MT PULASKI.
IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM..GO TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
INTENSE LIGHTNING IS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...
STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN
INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING TELEPHONES
AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPIMENT UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY. MOTORISTS SHOULD
NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
ATTN ISP DIST...9
BYRDWhat 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, Feb 14, 9:46 PM CST, 5 hours 36 minutes before
ILZ009-010-150500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 9 45 PM CST FRI FEB 14 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 9 40 PM CST...WEATHER RADARS INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN AND PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THE STORMS WERE WEST OF A LINE FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF PEORIA NEAR BRIMFIELD ILLINOIS TO ST.LOUIS MISSOURI. AT 925 PM CST MORGAN COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL AT MEREDOSIA AND AT 9 32 PM CST MORGAN COUNTY SHERRIFF REPORTED MARBLE SIZE HAIL AT WINCHESTER ILLINOIS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL ...HAIL AND STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS ARE ADVISED TO BE ON THE ALERT FOR THESE CONDITIONS AND TAKE NECESSARY SAFETY PRECAUTIONS. HILLIARD
Special weather statement, Feb 14, 10:15 PM CST, 5 hours 7 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-150500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 1015 PM CST FRI FEB 14 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH SMALL HAIL OCCURRING OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 1010 PM... RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS AND OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM THE PEORIA VICINITY SOUTHWARD THROUGH GLASFORD AND MASON CITY. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED IN FULTON COUNTY NEAR AVON AND LEWISTON AT ABOUT 9:45 PM... AND VERY SMALL HAIL WAS FALLING IN THE PEORIA AREA AT ABOUT 10 TO 10:10 PM. WINDS HAVE BEEN GUSTING UP TO ABOUT 25 MPH. THE RAINFALL MAY BECOME HEAVY... WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF BRIEF FLOODING OF LOW LYING; AREAS NORMALLY PRONE TO FLOODING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE PAST THE PEORIA AREA INTO TAZEWELL AND WOODFORD COUNTIES BY 10:30 PM. JACOBS
Special weather statement, Feb 14, 11:01 PM CST, 4 hours 21 minutes before
ILZ009-010-150600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 1100 PM CST FRI FEB 14 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 1055 PM CST...WEATHER RADARS INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THE STORMS WERE EAST OF A LINE FROM 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF PEORIA NEAR GALESBURG TO 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF QUINCY NEAR CLAYTON TO 15 MILES NORTH OF ST.LOUIS MISSOURI NEAR GRAFTON ILLINOIS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL ...HAIL AND STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS ARE ADVISED TO BE ON THE ALERT FOR THESE CONDITIONS AND TAKE NECESSARY SAFETY PRECAUTIONS. HILLIARD
Special weather statement, Feb 14, 11:08 PM CST, 4 hours 14 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-150600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 1100 PM CST FRI FEB 14 1992 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DECREASING IN INTENSITY... AT 1055 PM... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS BUT APPEARED TO BE DISSIPATING. MOST OF THE REMAINING ACTIVITY WAS OCCURRING TO THE EAST OF A LINE FROM BRADFORD TO QUINCY. A FEW ISOLATED AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME VERY SMALL HAIL REMAINED IN TAZEWELL AND MASON COUNTIES. MOVEMENT OF THE SHOWERS AND STORMS CONTINUED TO BE TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MPH. BREESER
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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.