Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1992, 10:28 PM CDT for Hancock County, Illinois. It was in force for 32 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
- Jul 12, 1992, 10:28 PM CDT (03:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1992, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hancock County, IL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 10:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Hancock, 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 413 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
- 3062 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1266 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 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 130328
SVRPIA
ILC067-130400-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
1028 PM CDT SUN JUL 12 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
SOUTHEAST HANCOCK
AT 1020 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING EAST
ALONG THE ADAMS COUNTY AND HANCOCK COUNTY LINE. A FEW REPORTS OF
FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM. THE STORM WAS
MOVING TO THE EAST 30 MILES AN HOUR.
TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE STILLWELL...BOWEN AND
AUGUSTA.
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.
ATTN ISP 14
NELSONWhat 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 12, 6:21 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
ILZ009-130130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 6 15 PM CDT SUN JUL 12 1992 ...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 615 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN OCCURING OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THE AREA OF SHOWERS WAS NORTH OF A LINE FROM 50 MILES WEST OF SPRINGFIELD NEAR MEREDOSIA...TO 20 MILES NORTH OF DECATUR NEAR CLINTON. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD NEAR OAKFORD...AND 22 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD NEAR BROADWELL. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAD BEEN REPORTED ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE THROUGH 615 PM. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN MENARD AND LOGAN COUNTIES THROUGH 7 30 PM...AFFECTING THE COMMUNITIES OF NEW HOLLAND...MIDDLETOWN...LINCOLN...CHESTNUT AND BROADWELL. DB
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 7:19 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
ILZ009-130130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 7 15 PM CDT SUN JUL 12 1992 ...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 710 PM...AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS NORTH OF A LINE FROM MEREDOSIA TO SPRINGFIELD TO DECATUR TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHAMPAIGN. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD NEAR LINCOLN...AND 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD NEAR PETERSBURG. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. AT 625 PM...PEA SIZE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND 40 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED AT LINCOLN. AREAS WHERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PASSED HAVE REPORTED DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING ACROSS CASS...MENARD...LOGAN ...DEWITT...MACON...AND NORTHERN SANGAMON COUNTIES THROUGH 830 PM. THIS WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF CHANDLERVILLE...PETERSBURG...ATHENS ...ELKHART...CLINTON...DECATUR...AND WILLIAMSVILLE. PERSONS IN THE AFFECTED AREAS SHOULD PREPARE FOR BRIEF HEAVY RAIN... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND WINDS TO 50 MPH. DB
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 8:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
ILZ009-130210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 8 05 PM CDT SUN JUL 12 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 805 PM...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS NORTH OF A LINE FROM DANVILLE TO CHAMPAIGN TO SPRINGFIELD TO QUINCY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST TO 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD...FROM ASHLAND TO ELKHART...IN THE CLINTON AREA 20 MILES NORTH OF DECATUR...AND JUST WEST OF CHAMPAIGN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COMMUNITIES THROUGH 915 PM...ATHENS...WILLIAMSVILLE...ELKHART...CLINTON...CHAMPAIGN ...AND URBANA. x PERSONS IN THE LISTED AREAS SHOULD PREPARE FOR DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH. DB
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 8:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
ILZ009-010-130210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ...CORRECTION FOR CODING...TEXT UNCHANGED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 8 05 PM CDT SUN JUL 12 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 805 PM...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS NORTH OF A LINE FROM DANVILLE TO CHAMPAIGN TO SPRINGFIELD TO QUINCY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST TO 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD...FROM ASHLAND TO ELKHART...IN THE CLINTON AREA 20 MILES NORTH OF DECATUR...AND JUST WEST OF CHAMPAIGN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COMMUNITIES THROUGH 915 PM...ATHENS...WILLIAMSVILLE...ELKHART...CLINTON...CHAMPAIGN ...AND URBANA. PERSONS IN THE LISTED AREAS SHOULD PREPARE FOR DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH. DB
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 9:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
ILZ009-010-130310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 9 05 PM CDT SUN JUL 12 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 905 PM...AN AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS NORTH OF A LINE FROM CHAMPAIGN TO SPRINGFIELD. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST NORTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD IN THE SHERMAN... BUFFALO HART AREA. THE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS OVERNIGHT. THE GREATEST DANGER FROM THE STORMS UP UNTIL NOW HAS BEEN THE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS ACROSS CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. BE PREPARED FOR THE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SOME BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. DB
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 10:16 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
ILZ009-010-130410- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 1015 PM CDT SUN JUL 12 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 1015 PM...AN AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS NORTHWEST OF A BLOOMINGTON...SPRINGFIELD LINE. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD IN THE FANCY PRAIRIE AREA. THE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS OVERNIGHT. PERSONS ACROSS CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. BE PREPARED FOR DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. DB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Ogle, Winnebago | 30 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.