Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 1996, 7:14 PM CST for Macon County, Moultrie County, Piatt County, Illinois. It was in force for 61 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
- Feb 26, 1996, 7:14 PM CST (01:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 1996, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Macon County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:13 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 590 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1087 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
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 Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 26, 2:05 PM CST, 5 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 2:05 PM CST, 5 hours 9 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 6:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian | 34 min |
| Feb 26, 6:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian | 46 min |
| Feb 26, 7:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Shelby | 46 min |
| Feb 26, 7:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas | 38 min |
| Feb 26, 11:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 39 min |
| Feb 27, 12:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 54 min |
| Feb 27, 1:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Woodford | 30 min |
| Feb 27, 2:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Mason | 33 min |
| Feb 27, 2:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean, Tazewell | 32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.