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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1996, 8:41 PM CDT for Fulton County, Illinois. It was in force for 64 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
- Jun 2, 1996, 8:41 PM CDT (01:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1996, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fulton County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 8:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Canton, 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 404 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1480 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 Jun 2, 2:01 AM CDT, 18 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:01 AM CDT, 18 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 200 AM CDT SUN JUN 2 1996 AS OF 0645Z...88D SHOWING RW ACTIVITY ABOUT TO MOV OUT OF EC IL. SATELLITE LOOP SHOWG CLRG LINE FROM JUST W OF PIA TO JUST W OF SPI...SO WITH CLRG SKIES AND WINDS BECOMING LIGHT...CAN EXPECT SOME PATCHY FOG TO DEVLOP THIS MORNING ACROSS CWA. 00Z MODEL RUNS...SHOW VORT MAX MOVG THRU CWA THIS EVENING WITH NEXT S/W ...SO THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SOME RW/TRW ACTIVITY. HEATING TODAY WILL HELP TO DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE...SO SPC HAS PUT CWA IN SLIGHT RISK. AS FOR HI TEMPS TODAY...BELIEVE 80 TO 85 LOOKS RESONABLE WITH LOWS TONIGHT IN THE 55 TO 60 DEGREE RANGE. NEXT BEST CHANCE FOR RAIN LOOKS LIKE MON WITH NEXT S/W ROTATING AROUND UPPER LVL LOW...THO MAINLY FOR THE NRN PTNS OF IL. PIA 79/56 33 SPI 81/57 23 DEC 81/57 23 CMI 80/56 23 SE IL 84/58 03 BYRD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox, Peoria | 43 min |
| Jun 2, 8:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Knox | 116 min |
| Jun 2, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria | 59 min |
| Jun 2, 9:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Mason | 41 min |
| Jun 2, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian | 68 min |
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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.