Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Lincoln, IL

Issued

Jan 18, 1996, 10:44 AM CST (16:44 UTC)

Expired

Jan 18, 1996, 11:30 AM CST

In force

46 min

Issued by

NWS Lincoln, IL

Area

Whole counties

County DeWitt County, IL

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 181646 RRA
SVRSPI
ILC039-181730-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
1044 AM CST THU JAN 18 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
 
   ...DE WITT COUNTY
 
AT 1040 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES
NORTHWEST OF DECATUR...OR 10 MILES WEST OF CLINTON. THIS STORM IS MOVING
TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH...AND SHOULD REACH CLINTON AROUND 1100 AM.
THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...CAPABLE OF BLOWING DOWN TREES AND
DAMAGING ROOFS AND WINDOWS. GET INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
$$
 
HEDGES

NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 18, 9:51 AM CST, 53 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
950 AM CST THU JAN 18 1996

AS OF 15Z...CF HAS MOVED THRU THE WRN PTNS OF IL AND WAS ABOUT TO MOV
THRU SPI AND PIA.  BEARDSTOWN IN CASS CO (ALONG THE IL RVR) DROPPED
FROM 62 TO 35 IN ABOUT A HALF HOUR AS THE FRONT MOVED THRU AROUND 830
AM.  A LINE OF STRONG TRWS HAS DEVELOPED OVR C IL AND IS RAPIDLY MOVG
TO THE NORTH AT 50 MPH AS IT MAKES ITS WAY SLOWLY TO THE EAST.

BELIEVE RW/TRW WILL CHANGE OVER TO A MIX OF ZR/IP/S OVER MOST OF C IL
WHILE EC IL WILL CONT TO EXPERIENCE RW/TRW THRU THE EARLY AFTERNOON
HOURS.

PLEASE UPDATE THE ZONES TO REFLECT THE ABOVE CHANGES.

PIA  25/06 +6
SPI  25/06 +5
DEC  61/07 +5
CMI  60/08 +5

BYR~D

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.