Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 1992, 3:46 PM CDT for Hancock County, Illinois. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 1992, 3:46 PM CDT (20:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 1992, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hancock County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 413 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
- 2283 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 457 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 734 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
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, Sep 9, 1:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-091930 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 140 PM CDT WED SEP 9 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 4PM FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...AND UNTIL 9PM FOR WESTERN ILLINOIS... AT 1:40 PM... RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG STORMS FROM NORTHEAST TAZEWELL COUNTY SOUTHWEST TO SOUTH CENTRAL MASON COUNTY. OTHER SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE FROM JOLIET TO SPRINGFIELD AND IN THE MOLINE AREA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AxT 35 MPH. MARBLE AND PEA SIZE HAIL HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS LINE OF STORMS ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING. STUMETZ
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 2:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
ILZ010-092000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 200 PM CDT WED SEP 9 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 155 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A 15 MILE WIDE AREA OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD TO BLOOMINGTON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH LOGAN AND DEWITT COUNTIES OVER THE NEXT HOUR. REMEMBER...DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. ALSO...TORNADOES CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO OCCUR WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. SKIES WILL REMAIN MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDER/ STORMS...SOME MAY BE SEVERE. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN THE MID TO UPPER 80S WITH BRISK SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH. BE ALERT TO THE RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BYRD
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 2:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-092030 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 230 PM CDT WED SEP 9 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 4PM FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...AND UNTIL 9PM FOR WESTERN ILLINOIS... AT 2:30 PM... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER MCLEAN COUNTY EXTENDING NORTHEASTWARD. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHERN ILLINOIS NORTH OF A LINE FROM MOLINE TO CHICAGO. OTHER SMALL SHOWERS WERE WIDE:LY SCATTERED OVER WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE STRONGER STORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL ALONG WITH FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHT AND BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL. STUMETZ
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 2:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-092030 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 230 PM CDT WED SEP 9 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 4PM FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...AND UNTIL 9PM FOR WESTERN ILLINOIS... AT 2:30 PM... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER MCLEAN COUNTY EXTENDING NORTHEASTWARD. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHERN ILLINOIS NORTH OF A LINE FROM MOLINE TO CHICAGO. OTHER SMALL SHOWERS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE STRONGER STORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL ALONG WITH FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING AND BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL. STUMETZ /CORRECTED WOFRDING/
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 3:28 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
ILZ010-092115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 330 PM CDT WED SEP 9 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 325 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THE STORMS WERE NORTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHAMPAIGN TO JUST NORTH OF DANVILLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE OUT OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS BY 4 PM. REMEMBER...DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. ALSO...TORNADOES CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO OCCUR WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER NORTH/ EASTERN MISSOURI. THE STORMS WERE NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES WEST OF QUINCY TO 15 MILES NORTH OF PEORIA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN SECTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS AFTER 5 PM. BE ALERT TO THE RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BYRD
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 3:30 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-092130 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 330 PM CDT WED SEP 9 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 9PM FOR ALL OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 3:30 PM... A LINE OF STRONG STORMS WAS FROM 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF BURLINGTON IOWA EXTENDING SOUTHWEST INTO NORTHEAST MISSOURI. SCATTERED STRONG STORMS WERE FROM NAUVOO IN HANCOCK COUNTY THEN SOUTHWEST TO 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF QUINCY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO OVER NORTHERN ILLINOIS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MPH. THE STRONGER STORMS COULD PRODUCE TORNADOES...INCLUDE LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS AND WILL BE ACCOMAPNAIED WITH FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL. STUMETZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 10:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McDonough, Schuyler | 52 min |
| Sep 9, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Mason, Tazewell | 30 min |
| Sep 9, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McDonough, Warren | 37 min |
| Sep 9, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Peoria, Tazewell | 52 min |
| Sep 9, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean, Woodford | 64 min |
| Sep 9, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Morgan | 54 min |
| Sep 9, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Menard | 54 min |
| Sep 9, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | McLean | 39 min |
| Sep 9, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Sangamon | 45 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.