Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Lincoln, IL

Issued

Oct 29, 1996, 5:10 PM CST (23:10 UTC)

Expired

Oct 29, 1996, 6:15 PM CST

In force

65 min

Issued by

NWS Lincoln, IL

Area

Whole counties

Counties DeWitt County, IL, McLean County, IL

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

283 
WUUS1 KSPI 292310 RRA
SVRSPI
ILC021-039-107-115-113-167-203-300015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
510 PM CST TUE OCT 29 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
 
   ...CHRISTIAN COUNTY...DE WITT COUNTY...EASTERN LOGAN COUNTY
   ...MACON COUNTY...MC LEAN COUNTY...EASTERN SANGAMON COUNTY
   ...EASTERN WOODFORD COUNTY
 
AT 510 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF PEORIA
TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING TO
THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS.
 
SOME TOWNS AFFECTED BY THESE DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE MINONK...EL PASO
...BLOOMINGTON/NORMAL...CLINTON...MT. PULASKI...DECATUR...ILLIOPOLIS
AND TAYLORVILLE.
 
TAKE SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
AND STAY OFF TELEPHONES. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY
PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.
$$
 
MILLER

NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 29, 2:14 PM CST, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
215 PM CST TUE OCT 29 1996

18Z SFC CHART SHOWED STRNGLY WRAPPED-UP 981MB LOW OVR NRN NEB MOVG TO
NE.  WRM FRTN HAS PUSHED THRU SPI AND PIA...AND WL SHORTLY PUSH THRU
RMNDR OF CWA BY ISSUANCE TIME.  BRKS INI CLDS HAVE SLIGHTLY INCRSD
INSTABILITY OVR MID MS VLY AS TEMPS INCRSD TO MID 70S.  DWPTS CONT TO
ADV INTO CWA...CLOSE TO MID 60S.  COLD FRNT LACKS GOOD SFC CONVRG AS
PUSHING ACRS MO...YET PSBLITY CONTS FOR SVR WX ACRS ERN IA AND NERN MO.
MDLS CONT STRNG DYNAMICS...W/ MAYBE TOO STRNG OF MID LVL WINDS TO ALLOW
GROWTH OF UPDRAFT.  BLV NEGATIVE COMPONENTS NOT ENUF TO RULE-OUT SVR
THREAT.

ALAS...THEY JUST ISSUED A TORNADO BOX TO INCLUDE LARGE PART OF CWA.

WNDS WL ALSO CONT TO INCRS AS TIGHTER GRAD APPCHS CWA.  DUE TO TIGHT
WRAP OF SYS...AND DIR OF MOVMNT...DRIER AIR WL QUICKLY FILTER INTO CWA
TON.  SKY SHLD BCM CLEAR AND STRNG WNDS WL CONT.  MDLS KEEP TIGHT GRAD
OVR CWA TON AND TOM...SO 25 TO 35 MPH WL CONT TON AND TOM.  W/ STRNG
WNDS TON...TEMPS WL NOT PLUMMENT AS MUCH.  CRNT FCST FOR TON LOOKS
GOOD.  STORMS WL CONT INTO ERN PARTS CWA TON SO HIGHER POPS WARRANTED
THERE.

PIA   47/53  80
SPI   48/56  80
DEC   49/56  80
CMI   52/56  83
SEIL  53/58  83

AUTEN

In the hours before

ILZ027-036-040-047-049-050-292315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
457 PM CST TUE OCT 29 1996

...PART OF TORNADO WATCH FOR WESTERN ILLINOIS HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN TORNADO WATCH NUMBER
1102:

KNOX...FULTON...SCHUYLER...CASS...SCOTT...AND MORGAN.

THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS SHIFTED FURTHER EAST IN ILLINOIS...SO
THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THESE COUNTIES.

GEELHART

ILZ027-036-040-047-049-050-292315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
457 PM CST TUE OCT 29 1996

...PART OF TORNADO WATCH FOR WESTERN ILLINOIS HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN TORNADO WATCH NUMBER
1102:

KNOX...FULTON...SCHUYLER...CASS...SCOTT...AND MORGAN.

THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS SHIFTED FURTHER EAST IN ILLINOIS...SO
THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THESE COUNTIES.

GEELHART

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.