Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1996, 3:53 PM CDT for Clay County, Richland County, Illinois. It was in force for 37 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 26, 1996, 3:53 PM CDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1996, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, IL, Richland County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 26, 1:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 1:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 200 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996 AS OF 18Z...88D SHOWING PCPN FROM MCS ACROSS NRN PTNS OF CWA WITH A FEW TRW POPPING UP IN OUR SERN COUNTIES. 12Z MODEL RUNS SHOWG THAT LOW OVR SW WILL CONT TO LIFT TO THE N AND E... THIS WILL GIVE KS AND OK GOOD CHANCE FOR SVR WX TONIGHT BEFORE IT MOVES INTO IL LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY TOMORROW. CURRENT RW/TRW ACTIVITY IS ONLY MOVG TO THE NE AT ABOUT 25 MPH...SO BELIEVE IT WILL NOT EXIT NRN PTNS OF CWA TIL AFTER 00Z. THEN THERE WILL BE A BRIEF BREAK BEFORE MORE PCPN MOVES INTO THE AREA BY EARLY TOMORROW MORNING AS H5 LOW MOVES INTO NC KS WITH VORT LOBE ACROSS NRN MO/C IL BY 12Z. CURRENT ZONES LOOK GOOD FOR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW WITH HIGHER POPS ACROSS NRN PTNS OF AREA. QPF NUMBERS FOR CWA ARE BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES MONDAY NIGHT...WILL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE IF A FFA WILL BE NEEDED TOMORROW OR TOMORROW NIGHT. PIA 55/70 8x8 SPI 57/73 87 DEC 57/72 77 CMI 57/71 77 SE IL 59/75 76 BYRD
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 26, 10:57 AM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
ILZ027>031-036>038-040>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-271200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN ILLINOIS 1100 AM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996 ALTHOUGH SHOWERS AND THUNDERST\ORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...NONE ARE EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE...SO SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. BYRD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Sangamon | 67 min |
| May 25, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Moultrie, Shelby | 47 min |
| May 25, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Effingham | 25 min |
| May 25, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay | 65 min |
| May 25, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Cumberland | 45 min |
| May 25, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Richland | 38 min |
| May 25, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Lawrence, Richland | 62 min |
| May 26, 2:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian | 61 min |
| May 26, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clay | 32 min |
| May 26, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Lawrence | 44 min |
| May 26, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Jasper | 25 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.