Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1996, 12:24 PM CDT for Peoria County, Tazewell County, Woodford County, Illinois. It was in force for 36 min. 3 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
- Jul 24, 1996, 12:24 PM CDT (17:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1996, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Peoria County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Woodford County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:28 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 24, 12:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Morton, IL | |
| Jul 24, 12:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Chillicothe/Peoria, IL | |
| Jul 24, 12:51 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Metamora, 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1143 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 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 Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 24, 10:03 AM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 10:03 AM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 1000 AM CDT WED JUL 24 1996 AT 1445Z...88D STILL SHOWING SOME RW/TRW ACTIVITY S OF A MOULTRIE/ DOUGLAS/EDGAR COUNTY LINE. ALSO...RW/TRW ACTIVITY HAS DEVELOPED ALONG CF OVER NWRN IL AND SHOULD MOVE INTO CWA IN THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. CURRENT ZONES LOOK GOOD...JUST A FEW MINOR ADJUSTMENTS. PIA 84/59 30 SPI 86/60 32 DEC 85/61 32 CMI 84/60 32 SEIL 86/64 32 BYRD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 38 min |
| Jul 23, 10:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 31 min |
| Jul 24, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Mason, Menard | 41 min |
| Jul 24, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, McLean | 50 min |
| Jul 24, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan, Sangamon | 60 min |
| Jul 24, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Logan, Macon, Sangamon | 46 min |
| Jul 24, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt | 46 min |
| Jul 24, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Piatt | 45 min |
| Jul 24, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign | 41 min |
| Jul 24, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 55 min |
| Jul 24, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign | 49 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.