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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 1996, 11:51 PM CST for Fulton County, Illinois. It was in force for 39 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, 11:51 PM CST (05:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 1996, 12:30 AM CST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fulton County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:54 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 98 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 594 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 656 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KSPI 270553 RRA SVRSPI ILC057-270630- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 1151 PM CST MON FEB 26 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...FULTON COUNTY AT 1150 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 55 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PEORIA OR NEAR THE TOWN OF ASTORIA. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE STORM SHOULD AFFECT THE TOWN DUNCAN MILLS BY 1215 AM. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THIS STORM WILL BE LARGE HAIL.
The office that day
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, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon, Moultrie, Piatt | 61 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 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 |
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.