Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1992, 3:31 PM CST for Morgan County, Illinois. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1992, 3:31 PM CST (21:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1992, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morgan County, IL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 3:51 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Morgan, IL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 322 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1022 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 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 062131
SVRSPI
ILC137-062200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL
331 PM CST FRI MAR 6 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
CENTRAL NORTH MORGAN
AT 3 25 PM CST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED 5 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF JACKSONVILLE...35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD. 3/4
INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVED THROUGH SCOTT
COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
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.
ATTN ISP DIST...9
PALMERWhat 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, Mar 6, 12:46 PM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes before
ILZ009-010-061945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 1243 PM CST FRI MAR 6 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 42 IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAT CH NUMBER 42 HAS BEEN EXPANDED IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS TO INCLUDE ALL OF THE COUNTIES IN ZONE 9...MASOM...CASS... MORGAN...SANGAMON...MACOUPIN...MONTGOMERY...MENARD...LOGAN...DE WITT ...MACON AND CHRISTIAN. FS
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 1:05 PM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes before
ILZ009-010-062000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 1255 PM CST FRI MAR 6 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 7 00 PM CST... AT 1250 PM...SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS IN AN AREA FROM PEORIA TO CHAMPAIGN TO EFFINGHAM TO SPRINGFIELD AND BACK TO PEORIA. THE SHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD IN SOUTHWEST MASON COUNTY. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER NEAR AND SOUTH OF QUINCY... EXTENDING INTO EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM S WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PALMER
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 1:50 PM CST, 1 hour 41 minutes before
ILZ005-006-007-009-062100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 150 PM CST FRI MAR 6 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7PM FOR PARTS OF WESTERN ILLINOIS. RADAR AT 1:40 PM INDICATED A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THUNDERSTORMS WERE SPECIFICALLY LOCATED JUST EAST OF THE ILLINOIS RIVER NEAR HAVANA IN MASON COUNTY... NEAR VERMONT IN SOUTHWEST FULTON COUNTY... AND IN A BROKEN LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR KEOKUK IOWA DOWN THROUGH QUINCY ILLINOIS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MAINLY JUST PRODUCING A FEW AREAS OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. THERE COULD ALSO BE SOME SMALL HAIL AND SOME GUSTY WINDS... BUT THE ACTIVITY WAS NOT APPROACHING SEVERE LEVELS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. . RESIDENTS OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS MAY EXPECT OCCASIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. IN WESTERN ILLINOIS THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AS AN UPPER LEVEL WEATHER DISTURBANCE PUSHES INTO THE AREA FROM MISSOURI. THUNDERSHOWER ACTIVITY MAY REACH PEORIA FROM THE SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST BY ABOUT 3PM... TO BRING RAIN AND SOME GUSTY WINDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL... AND ARE ACCOMPANIED BY VERY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. JACOBS
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 1:52 PM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes before
ILZ009-010-062100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 1 50 PM CST FRI MAR 6 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 7 00 PM CST... AT 1 45 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EAST ILLINOIS IN AN AREA NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF ST. LOUIS TO QUINCY TO 25 MILES NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD TO DANVILLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER EASTERN MISSOURI BETWEEN ST. LOUIS AND COLUMBIA EXTENDING NORTH TO 45 MILES WEST OF QUINCY ILLINOIS. THESE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO WESTERN ILLINOIS BY AROUND 300 TO 330 PM. PALMER
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 2:47 PM CST, 44 minutes before
ILZ005-006-007-009-062150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 250 PM CST FRI MAR 6 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS INTENSIFYING IN WESTERN ILLINOIS... AT 2:45 PM CST... RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERTORM JUST ENTERING SOUTHWESTERN HANCOCK COUNTY WEST OF THE TOWN OF LORRAINE ILLINOIS IN EXTREME WESTERN ILLINOIS. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE TOWN OF CARTHAGE DURING THE NEXT HOUR. RESIDENTS SHOULD ANTICIPATE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE HAIL OTHER MUCH LESS INTENSE THUNDERSHOWERS WERE OCCURRING IN WESTERN SCHUYLER COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSHOWERS WERE ALSO MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE UP NORTH OF RUSHVILLE ILLINOIS DURING THE NEXT HOUR. . RESIDENTS OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS MAY EXPECT OCCASIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. IN WESTERN ILLINOIS THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AS AN UPPER LEVEL WEATHER DISTURBANCE PUSHES INTO THE AREA FROM MISSOURI. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL... AND ARE ACCOMPANIED BY VERY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. JACOBS
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 2:56 PM CST, 35 minutes before
ILZ009-010-062200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 2 55 PM CST FRI MAR 6 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 7 00 PM CST... AT 2 45 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WINCHESTER ILLINOIS WHICH IS ABOUT 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STORM MAY PRODUCE MARBLE SIZE HAIL AS IT MOVES INTO MORGAN COUNTY BETWEEN MEREDOSIA AND JACKSONVILLE THROUGH CHAPIN BETWEEN 3 00 AND 3 30 PM. THIS STORM WILL ALSO HAVE FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ANOTHER INTENSIFYING STORM WAS IN MACOUPIN COUNTY BETWEEN GREENFIELD AND CARLINVILLE. OTHER INTENSIFYING THUNDMERSTORMS WERE OVER WESTERN ILLINOIS FROM NEAR BURLINGTON IOWA TO QUINCY ILLINOIS TO 50 MILES WEST OF ST. LOUIS. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO WESTERN ILLINOIS BETWEEN 3 00 AND 4 00 PM. PALMER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 3:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Morgan | 33 min |
| Mar 6, 4:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Cass | 26 min |
| Mar 6, 4:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass | 39 min |
| Mar 6, 4:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macoupin | 32 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.