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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 27, 1996Christian County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 11:14 PM CDT for Christian County, Illinois. It was in force for 61 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 27, 1996, 11:14 PM CDT (04:14 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1996, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties

County Christian County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 253 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 493 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 305 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSPI 280423 COR
SVRSPI
ILC021-280515-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
1114 PM CDT MON MAY 27 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

   ...CHRISTIAN COUNTY

AT 1111 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO
CHRISTIAN COUNTY. THE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PAWNEE IN SOUTHEAST
SANGAMON COUNTY OR 3 MILES WEST OF THE SANGAMON/CHRISTAIN COUNTY LINE.
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE
HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. TOWNS IN THE PATH INCLUDE
KINCAID...MORRISONVILLE AND TAYLORVILLE.

TAKE SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
AND STAY OFF TELEPHONES. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY
PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.
$$

KETCHAM

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 27, 2:12 PM CDT, 9 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 2:12 PM CDT, 9 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
210 PM CDT MON MAY 27 1996

AT 19Z...PCPN HAD MOVD OUT OF SRN PTNS OF CWA.  SKIES REMAINED
MSTLY CLDY WITH TEMPS RANGING FROM 55 AT PIA AND BMI TO 67 AT LWV.

BELIEVE PCPN WILL NOT RETURN TO CWA TILL AFT 00Z...AS SVR TRW EXPECTED
TO DEVELOP OVR WRN MO AND MOV ALONG AND N OF SF.

LOW CNTRD OVR SC NE WILL CONT TO SLOWLY MOV TO THE E THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
PCPN IS EXPECTED TO TAPER OFF DURING THE DAY TOMORROW AS LOW MOVE TO
THE E COAST...HOWEVER...SF WILL LINGER OVER SRN IL THRU WED...SO SOME
PCPN IS STILL POSSIBLE LATE TUE.

AS FOR LOWS TONIGHT...BELIEVE TEMPS WILL RANGE FROM THE LOW 50S TO LOW
60S.  HIGHS TOMORROW SHOULD BE IN THE 60S IN NRN PTNS AND 70S IN SRN
PTNS.

PIA    52/67  65
SPI    54/70  65
DEC    54/69  55
CMI    53/69  55
SE IL  60/75  55

BYRD

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 8:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Morgan, Scott	42 min
May 27, 9:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Morgan, Scott	66 min
May 27, 10:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Sangamon	61 min
May 28, 1:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign	38 min
May 28, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	69 min
May 28, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	45 min
May 28, 2:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Edgar, Vermilion	43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.