Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1992, 5:36 PM CDT for Cass County, Morgan County, Illinois. It was in force for 69 min. 2 reports 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
- Jul 9, 1992, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1992, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cass County, IL, Morgan County, IL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 5:43 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Cass, IL | |
| Jul 9, 5:47 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 336 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
- 1224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 808 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Jul 9, 2:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
ILZ005>007-009-092030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 235 PM CDT THU JUL 9 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM FOR HANCOCK...MCDONOUGH... SCHUYLER...FULTON AND MASON COUNTIES... AT 230 PM... RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS DOTTING MOST OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THE HEAVIEST CONCENTRATION OF SHOWERS WAS FROM NORTHERN MCDONOUGH COUNTY TO PEORIA. THESE SHOWERS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. MORE SHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING WEST OF BURLINGTON. NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS HOWEVER CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IN AND AROUND THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE STAY TUNED TO TELEVISION...LOCAL RADIO OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. . MOGGED
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 3:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
ILZ009-092100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 3 08 PM CDT THU JUL 9 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 7 PM CDT... AT 305 PM CDT...WEATHER RADARS SHOWS AND AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDER/ STORMS NORTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM BURLINGTON IOWA TO PEORIA THEN SOUTH TO NEAR EFFINGHAM ILLINOIS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AND SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS IN EDGAR...COLES AND CLARK COUNTIES. . REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 7 PM CDT. PERSONS ARE ADVISED TO BE ON THE ALERT FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVED TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. HILLIARD
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 3:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-092130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 330 PM CDT THU JUL 9 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 7 PM FOR HANCOCK...MCDONOUGH... SCHUYLER...FULTON AND MASON COUNTIES... AT 325 PM... SHOWERS WITH POSSIBLY A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS DETECTED ALONG A LINE FROM WEST CENTRAL FULTON COUNTY 43 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PEORIA TO NORTHERN MCLEAN COUNTY...23 MILES NORTHEAST OF BLOOMINGTON. IN ADDITION... MAINLY SHOWERS WERE OCCURRING OVER WESTERN ILLINOIS EAST OF A LINE FROM BURLINGTON TO QUINCY...EAST TO GALESBURG. MOVEMENT OF THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WAS TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAD BEEN REPORTED ACROSS THE HEART OF ILLINOIS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...HOWEVER CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE COUNTIES MENTIONED TO THE SOUTH OF PEORIA. PERSONS IN THE AFFECTED AREAS SHOULD STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. BREESER
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 4:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
ILZ009-010-092200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 4 00 PM CDT THU JUL 9 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 7 PM CDT... AT 355 PM CDT...WEATHER RADARS SHOWS AND AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDER/ STORMS EAST OF A LINE FROM GIBSON CITY 22 MILES NORTH OF CHAMPAIGN TO ASSUMPTON 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM WERE OVER NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS NORTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR BURLINGTON IOWA TO GIBSON CITY ILLINOIS. THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AND SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TERRE HAUTE INDIANA JUST SOUTH OF MARTINSVILLE ILLINOIS. REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMPS WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 7 PM CDT. PERSONS ARE ADVISED TO BE ON THE ALERT FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVED TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. HILLIARD
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 4:40 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
ILZ005>007-009-092230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 440 PM CDT THU JUL 9 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 7 PM FOR HANCOCK...MCDONOUGH... SCHUYLER...FULTON AND MASON COUNTIES... AT 435 PM... MAINLY SHOWERS WITH POSSIBLY A FEW THUNDERSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED ALL ACROSS WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THE HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION WAS OCCURRING OVER CENTRAL PUTNAM COUNTY NEAR GRANVILLE...45 MILES NORTHEAST OF PEORIA. MOVEMENT OF ALL OF THE SHOWERS WAS TO THE EAST NORHTEAST AT 30 MPH. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAD BEEN REPORTED ACROSS THE HEART OF ILLINOIS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...HOWEVER CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE COUNTIES MENTIONED TO THE SOUTH OF PEORIA. PERSONS IN THE AFFECTED AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. BREESER
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 5:01 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
ILZ009-010-092300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 5 00 PM CDT THU JUL 9 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 7 PM CDT... AT 455 PM CDT...WEATHER RADARS SHOWS A SCATTERED AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF A LINE FROM QUINCY TO DANVILLE ILLINOIS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD NEAR FREDERICK ILLINOIS AND NEAR PARNELL 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHAMPAIGN ILLINOIS. THE STRONGEST STORMS MAY LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL ...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOI0S UNTIL 7 PM CDT. PERSONS ARE ADVISED TO BE ALERT OF THESE STORMS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER OCCURRS. HILLIARD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 1:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon | 52 min |
| Jul 9, 1:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Piatt | 57 min |
| Jul 9, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas | 41 min |
| Jul 9, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark | 57 min |
| Jul 9, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Cass, Morgan | 39 min |
| Jul 9, 6:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Menard, Sangamon | 34 min |
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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.