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Tornado Warning 1, NWS St. Louis, MO

June 17, 1992Adams County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 1992, 1:48 PM CDT for Adams County, Illinois. It was in force for 27 min. 3 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: Jun 17, 1992, 1:48 PM CDT (18:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 1992, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Adams County, IL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jun 17, 1:54 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Adams, IL
Jun 17, 2:05 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Adams, IL
Jun 17, 2:18 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Adams, 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 390 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 171849
TORSTL
ILC001-171915-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
148 PM CDT WED JUN 17 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
 
   ...ADAMS COUNTY
 
AT 125 PM...A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED NORTH OF THE QUINCY AIRPORT. THE
PARENT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF QUINCY AT
144 PM...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
 
IF YOU LIVE IN THE CITIES OF BIGNECK AND GOLDEN...THE STORM WILL
REACH YOUR AREA BY 210 PM.  TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH
OF THIS STORM.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
EHG/RP

The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 1:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Adams	35 min
Jun 17, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Adams	51 min
Jun 17, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Adams	29 min
Jun 17, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Brown	33 min
Jun 17, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Calhoun, Greene	46 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.