Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Lincoln, IL

Issued

Apr 21, 1996, 8:33 PM CDT (01:33 UTC)

Expired

Apr 21, 1996, 9:30 PM CDT

In force

57 min

Issued by

NWS Lincoln, IL

Area

Whole counties

Counties Crawford County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Richland County, 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.

000 
TTAA00 KSPI 220136
SVRSPI
ILC033-101-159-220230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
833 PM CDT SUN APR 21 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS
 
   ...CRAWFORD COUNTY...NORTHWESTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY
   ...RICHLAND COUNTY
 
AT 830 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF OLNEY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. AREAS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM WILL BE NORTHEAST
RICHLAND COUNTY...AND THE TOWNS OF CHAUNCEY...HARDINVILLE...OBLONG AND
ROBINSON.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU ARE IN
ITS PATH...PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING.
 
$$
 
MILLER

NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 21, 2:13 PM CDT, 6 hours 20 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
211 PM CDT SUN APR 21 1996

AS OF 18Z...TEMPS WERE IN THE LOW TO MID 60S WITH CI ACROSS WRN PTNS
OF CWA.  WINDS CONTINUED FROM THE E TO SE AS RIDGE IS SLOW TO MOVE OUT
OF AREA.

12Z MODEL RUNS STILL INDICATING AN AREA OF LOW PRESS OVR TX DEEPENING
AND MOVG TO THE NE.  THE LOW SHOULD BE OVR NC IL BY 12Z MON.  MOISTURE
AND DYNAMICS SLOW TO RETURN TO IL WITH 50+ DEWPTS ACROSS EXTREME SRN
IL ALONG WF.  EXPECT WF TO MOV INTO C IL BY 06Z WITH RW AND TRW DEVLPG
ALONG AND AHEAD OF WF...SO BELIEVE PCPN WILL NOT MOV INTO AREA TIL
AFT 03Z TONIGHT.

GRIDDED DATA SHOWG STRONG THETA-E RIDGE MOVG INTO C IL OVERNIGHT WITH
GRADIENT VECTOR OPPOSITE OF STRONG LLJ AT 850...SO THERE IS THE
POSSIBILITY OF TRAINING ECHOES ACROSS AREA OVERNIGHT.  CIN RVR FCST
CENTER HAS ASKED FOR 48 HOUR QPF DUE TO THIS POSSIBILITY.

AS FOR TEMPS OVERNIGHT...BELIEVE LOWS WILL BE IN THE LOW TO MID 50S
...AS CF S|HOULD NOT BEGIN TO MOV THRU AREA TIL AROUND 12Z.  AS FOR
HIGHS TOMORROW...WITH THE CLD CVR AND PCPN TEMPS WILL ONLY RISE INTO
THE UPPER 50S TO LOW 60S.

PIA  53/59  +5
SPI  54/59  +5
DEC  53/58  +6
CMI  53/60  +7

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.