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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Quad Cities, IA

July 17, 1996Bureau County, Illinois

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1996, 5:48 PM CDT for Bureau County, Illinois. It was in force for 42 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 17, 1996, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 1996, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area: Whole counties

County Bureau County, IL

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 17, 6:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	La Moille, 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.

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

NWS Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 17, 2:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 2:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 17, 4:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

ILZ007-009-016>018-180300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
413 PM CDT WED JUL 17 1996

...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 10 PM FOR PARTS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS...

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR
THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS...
     CARROLL...WHITESIDE...AND HENRY

IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS...
     BUREAU AND PUTNAM

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL COMMERCIAL RADIO OR
TV STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

BOEHMKE

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.