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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Lincoln, IL

April 15, 1992Fulton County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 1992, 5:26 PM CDT for Fulton County, Illinois. It was in force for 34 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: Apr 15, 1992, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 1992, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties

County Fulton County, IL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 15, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Fulton, 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 400 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: 564 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1576 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPIA 152226
TORPIA
ILC057-152330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
526 PM CDT WED APR 15 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF ILLINOIS
      FULTON

AT5:20 PM... RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST WEST OF
LEWISTOWN IN FULTON COUNTY.

THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND SHOULD PASS NEAR
LEWISTOWN AND BRYANT AND CANTON DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

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.

ATTN ISP 14

JACOBS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 3:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Woodford	30 min
Apr 15, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Logan	53 min
Apr 15, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Macoupin, Morgan	41 min
Apr 15, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Sangamon	52 min
Apr 15, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Woodford	31 min
Apr 15, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton	57 min
Apr 15, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	McLean	56 min
Apr 15, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Menard	31 min
Apr 15, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Tazewell	66 min
Apr 15, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Bureau, Putnam	13 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.