Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1992, 6:21 PM CDT for Henderson County, Illinois. It was in force for 24 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1992, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1992, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henderson County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 450 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
- 2139 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 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 KPIA 192321
SVRPIA
ILC071-192345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
621 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
HENDERSON
AT 6:20 PM CDT... RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING
ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FROM IOWA... APPROACHING WESTERN
HENDERSON COUNTY NEAR OQUAWKA. THIS THUNDERSTORM DOWNED TREES
IN MEDIAPOLIS IOWA AT 6PM. THE STORM SHOULD AFFECT OQUAWKA AND
BIGGSVILLE DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES.
THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 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 LIGHTNING.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNZING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM FOR BUREAU AND PUTNAM
COUNTIES.
ATTN ISP 14
JACOBSWhat 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, Jun 19, 3:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
ILZ005-006-007-009-192145-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
345 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1992
A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 9PM FOR PARTS OF NORTHWEST ILLINOIS
AND INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE HEART OF ILLINOIS AREA...
BUREAU AND PUTNAM
THIS AREA IS NORTH OF THE PEORIA AREA AND PEORIA IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE
WATCH.
RADAR AT 3:40 PM INDICATED NO PRECIPITATION OTHER THAN A FEW SPRINKLES.
THE WATCH WAS ISSUED BECAUSE OF THE RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF INTENSE
THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST IOWA THAT SHOULD PUSH
SOUTHEASTWARD INTO NORTHWEST ILLINOIS DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.
JACOBSSpecial weather statement, Jun 19, 4:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
ILZ005-006-007-009-192245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 440 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 9PM FOR BUREAU AND PUTNAM COUNTIES... ALTHOUGH A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT... RADAR AT 4:35 PM INDICATED NO THUNDERSTORMS IN OR APPROACHING THE HEART OF ILLINOIS AREA. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA DOES NOT INCLUDE PEORIA COUNTY. THE WATCH WAS ISSUED BECAUSE OF THE RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST IOWA THAT SHOULD PUSH SOUTHEASTWARD INTO NORTHWEST ILLINOIS DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. JACOBS
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 5:48 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
ILZ005-006-007-009-192345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 545 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 9PM FOR BUREAU AND PUTNAM COUNTIES... AT 5:42 PM CDT... RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER INTO NORTHWEST ILLINOIS AROUND THE QUAD CITIES AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. IF THIS MOVEMENT CONTINUES... AND IF THE THUNDERSTORMS HOLD TOGETHER..e. THEY WOULD REACH NORTHERN KNOX COUNTY AND WESTERN BUREAU COUNTY ABOUT 7PM. THIS IS ALL GOING ON WELL TO THE NORTHWEST OF PEORIA... AND PEORIA IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH. JACOBS
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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.