Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Lincoln, IL

Issued

May 3, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT (03:30 UTC)

Expired

May 3, 1996, 11:20 PM CDT

In force

50 min

Issued by

NWS Lincoln, IL

Area

Whole counties

Counties Moultrie County, IL, Piatt 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 040331
SVRSPI
ILC139-147-040420-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
1030 PM CDT FRI MAY 3 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN IL HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1120 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

   ...MOULTRIE COUNTY...PIATT COUNTY
 
AT 1030 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
LOCATED NEAR LONG CREEK...7 MILES EAST OF DECATUR. THE STORM IS
MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
IN PIATT COUNTY: CERRO GORDO...MONTICELLO...AND BEMENT. IN MOULTRIE
COUNTY: BETHANY AND LOVINGTON.

DAMAGING HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH 0THIS STORM. GET INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
$$

GEELHART

NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 3, 7:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
800 PM CDT FRI MAY 3 1996

NOT MUCH TIME FOR A DISCUSSION.  SVR WX GOING ON ACROSS SERN SECTIONS
OF CWA.  TRWS ARE RIDING RIGHT ALONG THE DEWPOINT AXIS WITH 60+ DWPTS
TO THE SOUTH AND 45 TO THE NORTH.  SOUTH WINDS CONT TO FEED GOOD
MOISTURE ACROSS QUASI-STNRY FRONT SO EXPECT SOME GOOD OVERUNNING RAINS
ACROSS MOST OF IL.  QUICK LOOK AT SAT SHOWS STORMS OVER SERN IL AND
STORMS IN SERN IA ARE STARTING TO DEVELOP INTO MCS TYPE SYSTEMS.
FAVORABLE THICKNESS TAKES THESE E-SE ACROSS MOST OF CWA.  SO MAY BE
GOOD IDEA TO ADD HVY RAIN TO ALL OF CWA.  FFA STILL LOOKS GOOD FOR SERN
IL GIVEN STORMS ROLLING ACROSS ATTM.

PIA    49/52  +5
SPI    53/55  86
DEC    52/54  86
CMI    52/53  86
SE IL  57/57  +8

KETCHAM

In the hours before

ILZ062-063-066>068-071>073-040315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
913 PM CDT FRI MAY 3 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WHICH HAD BEEN IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF
SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS
SHIFTED INTO PARTS OF INDIANA.

HOWEVER...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH DOES REMAIN IN EFFECT OVERNIGHT.

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.