Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1996, 10:51 PM CDT for Mason County, Tazewell County, Illinois. It was in force for 44 min. 2 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 23, 1996, 10:51 PM CDT (03:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1996, 11:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mason County, IL, Tazewell County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 11:18 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Delavan, IL | |
| Jun 23, 11:44 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | South Pekin, 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 nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 3075 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1342 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
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 Jun 23, 2:23 PM CDT, 8 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 2:23 PM CDT, 8 hours 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 220 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 1996 STORMS CONT TO FIRE ALONG HIGHEST DWPT AXIS AND MOV NE. BEHIND FRNT DIR SHR NIL W/ LITTLE SPD SHR. N OF FNT GOOD DIR SHR AS SFC WNDS FRM SE. STORMS SHLD CONT TO FIRE SOUTH OF FRNT ALONG MOIST AXIS AND OUTFLW BNDRIES COULD ALSO INTERACT W/ STORMS TO PRODUC STRNGR ONES. IF MCS DVLPS OVR SRN IA...SHLD MOV ALONG THCK AND TRACK EAST...OR LIKE LAST NIGHT TRACK NE INTO NRN IL AND SRN WI. CRNT FCST APPEARS TO BE ON TRACK W/ TSTMS THIS EVE AND TON. MDL BRNGS FRNT BACK INTO CWA TOM MORN AS STNRY W/ PSBLITY OF MORE PCPN TOM AND TUE. HIGHS TOM WL BE TRICKY DEPENDG ON CLD CVR. MOS TMPS LOOK FINE W/ PTLY SUNNY SKIES. WNDS WL ALSO BE DEPENDENT ON FNT POSIT. PIA 69/86 63 SPI 70/89 63 DEC 70/88 63 CMI 69/86 55 SEIL 71/89 63 AUTEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Tazewell | 54 min |
| Jun 24, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt | 41 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.