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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Lincoln, IL

July 5, 1992Peoria County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1992, 1:39 AM CDT for Peoria County, Illinois. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 5, 1992, 1:39 AM CDT (06:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 1992, 2:45 AM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties

County Peoria County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 423 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 742 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1248 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPIA 050639
SVRPIA
ILC143-050745-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
139 AM CDT SUN JUL 5 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
      PEORIA

AT 0134 AM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
NORTHERN PEORIA COUNTY BETWEEN THE TOWNS OF BRIMFIELD AND PRINCE-
VILLE MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. RADAR INDICATED MAINLY
LARGE HAIL WITH THIS STORM.

TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE DUNLAP... OAKHILL AND PEORIA.

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 WPITH 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

MOGGED

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, Jul 5, 1:09 AM CDT, 30 minutes before

ILZ005>007-009-050930-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
100 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...

AT 1255 PM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN
AND DEADLY LIGHTENING...WERE OCCURRING ALONG A LINE FROM BURLINGTON
THROUGH LA SALLE AND AURORA. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING SLOWLY
TO THE SOUTHEAST WHILE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH.

NET MOVEMENT ON THE STORMS WAS VERY SLOW AND SOME HEAVY RAIN WAS OCCURING
RESULTING IN POSSIBLE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS.

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.