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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Lincoln, IL

July 2, 1996Clay County, Richland County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1996, 5:03 PM CDT for Clay County, Richland 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 2, 1996, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 1996, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Lincoln, IL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Clay County, IL, Richland County, IL

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 2, 5:24 PM CDTHail 1.75Noble, 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 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1996-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1996-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1859 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 2:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXClark37 min
Jul 2, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXJasper47 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.