Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1996, 7:47 AM CDT for Moultrie County, Illinois. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1996, 7:47 AM CDT (12:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1996, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Moultrie County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 554 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSPI 101248 SVRSPI ILC139-101330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 747 AM CDT FRI MAY 10 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN IL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...MOULTRIE COUNTY AT 745 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED JUST NORTH OF SHELBYVILLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND SHOULD MOVE THROUGH THE FOLLOWING TOWNS...BETHANY...KIRKSVILLE AND SULLIVAN. TAKE SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND STAY OFF OF TELEPHONES. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. $$ BYRD
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 10, 1:48 AM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 10, 1:48 AM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 148 AM CDT FRI MAY 10 1996 AS OF 140 AM...88D INDICATED THAT ALL OF THE RWS AND TRWS WERE N OF CWA...THO THERE IS STILL THE CHANCE FOR SOME PCPN ACROSS EXTREME NRN PTNS OF CWA THIS MORNING. OTHERWISE...BELIEVE NEXT CHANCE FOR PCPN WILL BE WITH THE C FRONTAL PASSAGE...BEGINNING JUST BEFORE NOON ACROSS NRN PTNS OF CWA. TEMPS TODAY SHOULD BE IN THE 70S ACROSS THE FA. THE PCPN WILL CONT INTO THE EVENING HOURS THEN COOLER WX WILL RETURN TO THE AREA WITH LOWS TONIGHT AROUND 50...WARMER IN THE SERN COUNTIES. PIA 71/48 96 SPI 75/50 86 DEC 75/50 87 CMI 76/50 77 SERN IL 79/55 68 BYRD
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 10, 1:56 AM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION TO DATE OF EVENT...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
440 PM CDT THU MAY 9 1996
TIME (CDT) ...CITY/LOCATION... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE ...COUNTY LOCATION...
0245 PM VARNA IL WIND DAMAGE
05/09/96 MARSHALL SECOND STORY WALL OF HOME
BLOWN DOWN...MOBILE HOME
DAMAGED...TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWN...QUONSET HUT
BLOWN OVER.
MILLERLocal storm report, May 10, 2:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
200 AM CDT FRI MAY 10 1996
TIME (CDT) ...CITY/LOCATION... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE ...COUNTY LOCATION...
0908 PM 1S RIO IL TORNADO
05/09/96 KNOX BRIEF TOUCHDOWN.
PUBLIC REPORT
0914 PM ONEIDA IL 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/09/96 KNOX RECEIVED FROM
WFO DVN.
BYRDSpecial weather statement, May 10, 6:02 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
ILZ027>031-036>038-040>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-111100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN ILLINOIS 600 AM CDT FRI MAY 10 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 SYNOPSIS: A COLD FRONT LOCATED ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN IOWA AND INTO NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI WILL MOVE INTO ILLINOIS TODAY. THE COLD FRONT WILL TRIGGER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND AHEAD OF IT LATE THIS MORNING AND INTO THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK...TO THE SOUTH AND EAST OF A ST LOUIS TO DANVILLE LINE...THAT THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...SO SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. BYRD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Knox | 45 min |
| May 9, 9:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Knox | 52 min |
| May 9, 9:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Peoria, Stark | 53 min |
| May 10, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 44 min |
| May 10, 4:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Menard | 32 min |
| May 10, 7:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Shelby | 30 min |
| May 10, 11:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Moultrie, Shelby | 3 hr |
| May 10, 12:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Douglas, Vermilion | 6 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.