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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 17, 1992Warren County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 1992, 1:21 PM CDT for Warren County, Illinois. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 17, 1992, 1:21 PM CDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 1992, 2:30 PM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Lincoln, IL
Area
Whole counties

County Warren County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 452 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 12:00Z on 1992-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2332 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 12:00Z on 1992-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2332 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
853 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
2.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPIA 171821
TORPIA
ILC071-067-187-109-171930-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
121 PM CDT WED JUN 17 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
      SOUTHERN CENTRAL HENDERSON...HANCOCK...MCDONOUGH...

   IN THE CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
      WARREN...

AT (115 PM... WEATHER RADAR INDICATED POSSIBLE TORNADO DEVELOPMENT
IN BOTH HANCOCK AND SOUTH CENTRAL HENDERSON COUNTIES. THESE STORMS
WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH.

TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE LAHARPE... RARITAN....
ROSEVILLE.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER
IF AVAILABLE...OTHERWISE TO A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.

 THIS WARNING UPDATES THE EARLER WARNING FOR WARREN COUNTY.

ATTN ISP 14

MOGGED

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 12:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXHenderson61 min
Jun 17, 12:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXCarroll52 min
Jun 17, 12:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXWinnebago49 min
Jun 17, 12:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXWarren63 min
Jun 17, 1:21 PM CDTTornado WarningILXHenderson39 min
Jun 17, 1:21 PM CDTTornado WarningILXHancock, McDonough69 min
Jun 17, 1:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXLee, Ogle51 min
Jun 17, 1:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXBoone, Winnebago51 min
Jun 17, 1:45 PM CDTTornado WarningILXSchuyler60 min
Jun 17, 1:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXBureau43 min
Jun 17, 2:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXDeKalb, Lee, Ogle21 min
Jun 17, 2:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMarshall, Putnam59 min
Jun 17, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXFulton, Schuyler41 min
Jun 17, 3:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMason, Tazewell61 min
Jun 17, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMcLean, Woodford56 min
Jun 17, 4:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMacoupin68 min
Jun 17, 4:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXChristian68 min
Jun 17, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMacon45 min
Jun 17, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXDouglas50 min

Nearby

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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.