Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Lincoln, IL

Issued

Apr 18, 1996, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)

Expired

Apr 18, 1996, 7:45 PM CDT

In force

62 min

Issued by

NWS Lincoln, IL

Area

Whole counties

Counties Cass County, IL, Mason County, IL, Menard County, IL

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KSPI 182344
SVRSPI
ILC017-125-129-190045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
643 PM CDT THU APR 18 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
 
   ...EASTERN CASS COUNTY...MASON COUNTY...MENARD COUNTY
 
AT 642PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ARCADIA IN NORTHERN
MORGAN COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. TOWNS IN T
PATH OF THIS STORM ARE VIRGINIA...PETERSBURG...HAVANA AND MASON CITY.
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL.
 
TAKE SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL ,BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LIGHTNING KILLS...SO STAY AWAY FROM TELEPHONES. REMEMBER...A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.
$$
 
KETCHAM

NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 18, 2:08 PM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
205 PM CDT THU APR 18 1996

AS OF 1855Z...88D INDICATED NO RW OR TRW ACROSS CWA...MOST OF PCPN WAS
IN IA.  AS FOR TEMPS...ONLY IN THE UPPER 60S TO LOW 70S SO FAR WITH
DEWPTS IN THE LOW TO MID 50S.  STILL HAVE A 4 DEGREE CAP ACROSS CWA
SO DONT EXPECT TRW DEVELOPMENT TILL AFTER 4 PM.

12Z MODEL RUNS SHOW AREA OF HIGHEST INSTABILITY OVR NWRN IL BY 00Z...
THO CAN STILL EXPECT GOOD CHANCE OF SVR WX ACROSS C IL...JUST A MATTER
OF THE CAP BEING BROKEN.

ONCE CONVECTION MOVES OUT...CAN EXPECT OVERNIGHT LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S TO
LOW 50S.  ANOTHER CHANCE FOR RW/TRW TOMORROW W/ NEXT S/W MOVG THRU LATE
SAT.
PIA  50/69  33
SPI  51/70  33
DE,C  50/69  33
CMI  49/68  33

BYRD

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.