Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1996, 11:01 AM CDT for Vermilion County, Illinois. It was in force for 59 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1996, 11:01 AM CDT (16:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1996, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vermilion County, IL
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:00 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 11:37 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | New Town, 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 74 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 334 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 5, 9:54 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 5, 9:54 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 955 AM CDT SUN MAY 5 1996 CURRENT FORECAST TREND IS ON TRACK WITH MOST RECENT S/W KICKING OFF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NRN PART OF FA. MCS HOLDING ON STRONG AS IT CONTS TO MOV THROUGH MO WILL SPREAD RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SRN PART OF FA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. 88D SHOWING PCPN REACHING THE MS RIVER ATTM. NO POPS NEEDED FOR SRN PORTION OF AREA WITH WORDING RWS AND TRWS GOOD. FLOODING CO2ULD BE ANOTHER CONCERN AGAIN ESPECIALLY IN SE WHERE HEAVIEST RAIN SHOULD OCCUR AND THIS IS AREA THAT HAS SEEN HEAVIEST RAIN. PIA 64/46 50 SPI 66/48 +0 DEC 66/48 +0 CMI 66/47 +6 SE IL 71/52 +6 FRIEDERS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 5, 5:56 AM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before
ILZ027>031-036>038-040>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-061100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN ILLINOIS 600 AM CDT SUN MAY 5 1996 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS: KNOX...STARK...MARSHALL...FULTON...PEORIA...WOODFORD...TAZEWELL... MCLEAN...SCHUYLER...MASON...CASS...MENARD...LOGAN...DEWITT... SCOTT...MORGAN...SANGAMON...MACON...CHRISTIAN...SHELBY...PIATT... MOULTRIE...CHAMPAIGN...VERMILION...DOUGLAS...COLES...EDGAR... CUMBERLAND...CLARK...EFFINGHAM...JASPER...CRAWFORD...CLAY... RICHLAND...LAWRENCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE ANTICIPATED IN CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS TODAY. HOWEVER...THEY ARE NOT EXPECTED LTO BE SEVERE. MILLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 3:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Effingham | 55 min |
| May 5, 4:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay, Richland | 60 min |
| May 5, 10:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign | 42 min |
Nearby
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Sources
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.