Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 1992, 6:06 PM CST for Marshall County, Woodford County, Illinois. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 1992, 6:06 PM CST (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 1992, 6:40 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Marshall County, IL, Woodford County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 408 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 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 170006
SVRPIA
ILC123-203-170100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
606 PM CST MON MAR 16 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
SOUTHERN MARSHALL...NORTHERN WOODFORD
AT 600 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF
CHILLICOTHE IN EXTREME NORTHEAST PEORIA COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS
MOVING RAPIDLY EAST AT 65 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING ALONG THE BORDER
OF MARSHALL AND WOODFORD CONTIES. CITIES IN THE DIRECT PATH OF THIS
STORM ARE WASHBURN AND PATTONSBURG.
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 WARNING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT.
INTENSE LIGHTNING IS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...
STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS. MOVE INDOOR IF POSSIBLE. WHEN
INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING
TELEPHONES AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT.
ATTN ISP 8
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STUMETZWhat 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 16, 5:44 PM CST, 22 minutes before
ILZ005-006-007-009-170130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 545 PM CST MON MAR 16 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 640 PM...RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDWRSTORMS...SOME HEAVY SCATTERED FROM MOLINE SOUTHEAST TO SPRINFIELD. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF STARK COUNTY AND NORTHERN PEORIA COUNTY NEAR CHILLICOTHE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 50 MPH. THE STRONGER STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED WITH STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STUMETZ
Special weather statement, Mar 16, 5:47 PM CST, 19 minutes before
ILZ005-006-007-009-170130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 545 PM CST MON MAR 16 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 540 PM...RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME HEAVY SCATTERED FROM MOLINE SOUTHEAST TO SPRINFIELD. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF STARK COUNTY AND NORTHERN PEORIA COUNTY NEAR CHILLICOTHE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 50 MPH. THE STRONGER STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED WITH STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STUMETZ /CORRECTION TO TIME/
Special weather statement, Mar 16, 5:48 PM CST, 18 minutes before
ILZ009-010-170100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 5 47 PM CST MON MAR 16 1992 AT 5 45 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS HAD DEVELOPED OVER CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS FROM BETWEEN PEORIA AND BLOOMINGTON THROUGH THE WEST EDGE OF DE WITT COUNTY WEST OF CLINTON TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF BETWEEN DECATUR AND CHAMPAIGN. THE THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE SPEEDING EAST AT 60 MPH AND WILL BE ALONG THE INDIANA BORDER BETWEEN 700 AND 730 PM. ELSEWHERE OVER CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...THE SKY WAS PARTLY CLOUDY TO CLOUDY. TEMPERATURES WILL BE FALLING INTO THE MIDDLE TO UPPER 40S THROUGH THE EVENING WITH SOUTH WINDS CONTINUING 15 TO 30 MPH AND GUSTY. PALMER
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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.