Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1992, 6:50 PM CDT for Henderson County, Illinois. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 1992, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1992, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henderson County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 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
- 283 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1157 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 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 252356 COR
SVRPIA
ILC071-260045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...CORRECTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
650 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL HENDERSON
AT 650 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING
THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF HENDERSON COUNTY IN ILLINOIS. MOVEMENT
WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
CITIES IN THE DIRECT PATH OF THIS STORM ARE LOMAX...CARMON...AND
GULFPORT.
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
/CORRECTED ISP DISTRICT/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, Aug 25, 5:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
ILZ006-252330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 515 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN AFFECT FOR THE EXTREME WEST PARTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 9PM.D.. AT 515 PM...NO PRECIPTATION WAS OVER WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. A LINE OF STRONG STORMS WERE OVER EASTERN IOWA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO NORTHWEST ILLINOIS BY 6 PM. STUMETZ
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 6:26 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
ILZ006-250030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 625 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN AFFECT FOR THE EXTREME WEST PARTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 9PM... AT 625 PM...NO PRECIPTATION WAS OVER WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. A SEVERE STORM WAS IN SOUTHWEST IOWA 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT MADISON IOWA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. STRONG WINDS CAUSING TREE AND POWER LINE DAMAGE HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER NEAR BURLINGTON IOWA AND WEST CENTRAL HENDERSON COUNTY IN ILLINOIS BY 645 PM ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST IOWA AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI MOVING NORTHEAST< AT 30 MPH. STUMETZ
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 6:36 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
ILZ006-260030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 625 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN AFFECT FOR THE EXTREME WEST PARTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 9PM... AT 625 PM...NO PRECIPTATION WAS OVER WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. A SEVERE STORM WAS IN SOUTHWEST IOWA 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT MADISON IOWA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. STRONG WINDS CAUSING TREE AND POWER LINE DAMAGE HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER NEAR BURLINGTON IOWA AND WEST CENTRAL HENDERSON COUNTY IN ILLINOIS BY 645 PM ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST IOWA AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI MOVING NORTHnEAST AT 30 MPH. STUMETZ
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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.