Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 29, 1996, 4:19 PM CST for Whiteside County, Illinois. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 29, 1996, 4:19 PM CST (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 29, 1996, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Whiteside County, IL
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 674 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Oct 29, 2:25 PM CST, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 29, 2:25 PM CST, 1 hour 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 200 PM CST TUE OCT 29 1996 NO TIME FOR DISCUSSION. WX SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. SVR EVENT UNDERWAY. HENDRICKS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 29, 2:50 PM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
IAZ065-066-041-089-042-088-063-054-087-064-053-076-099-052-078- 067-068-098-077-ILZ017-007-034-025-016-001-035-024-018-015-002- 026-009-292245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 250 PM CST TUE OCT 29 1996 AT 250 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM CEDAR RAPIDS TO 10 MILES EAST OF KEOKUK. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED RAPIDLY EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI FROM 5 MILES EAST OF CLINTON TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF MOLINE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 50 MILE AN HOUR WINDS...PEA SIZE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. HOLSTEN
Special weather statement, Oct 29, 2:52 PM CST, 1 hour 27 minutes before
IAZ065-066-041-089-042-088-063-054-087-064-053-076-099-052-078- 067-068-098-077-ILZ017-007-034-025-016-001-035-024-018-015-002- 026-009-292245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 250 PM CST TUE OCT 29 1996 AT 250 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM CEDAR RAPIDS TO 10 MILES EAST OF KEOKUK. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED RAPIDLY EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI FROM 5 MILES EAST OF CLINTON TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF MOLINE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 50 MILE AN HOUR WINDS...PEA SIZE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. HOLSTE2N
Special weather statement, Oct 29, 3:21 PM CST, 58 minutes before
IAZ065-066-041-042-054-053-099-078-067-068-ILZ017-007-034-025-016- 001-035-024-018-015-002-026-009-292330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 321 PM CST TUE OCT 29 1996 AT 320 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM MONTICELLO TO MUSCATINE TO JUST WEST OF MACOMB MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE. HOLSTEN
Special weather statement, Oct 29, 3:22 PM CST, 57 minutes before
IAZ065-066-041-042-054-053-099-078-067-068-ILZ017-007-034-025-016- 001-035-024-018-015-002-026-009-292330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 321 PM CST TUE OCT 29 1996 AT 320 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM MONTICELLO TO MUSCATINE TO JUST WEST OF MACOMB MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE. HOLSTEN
Local storm report, Oct 29, 3:37 PM CST, 42 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 1:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Dubuque, Jackson, Jones | 42 min |
| Oct 29, 1:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Dubuque, Jackson, Jones | 36 min |
| Oct 29, 2:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DVN | Johnson, Washington | 42 min |
| Oct 29, 2:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Cedar | 50 min |
| Oct 29, 3:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DVN | Jones | 43 min |
| Oct 29, 3:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DVN | Cedar | 42 min |
| Oct 29, 3:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton, Scott | 52 min |
| Oct 29, 3:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DVN | Clinton, Scott | 49 min |
| Oct 29, 1:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jo Daviess | 49 min |
| Oct 29, 3:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henry, Whiteside | 42 min |
| Oct 29, 4:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Carroll, Jo Daviess | 56 min |
| Oct 29, 4:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Bureau, Putnam | 66 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1996Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.