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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1996, 2:23 PM CDT for Marshall County, Woodford County, Illinois. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports 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 13, 1996, 2:23 PM CDT (19:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1996, 3:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Marshall County, IL, Woodford County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 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 13, 2:25 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Sparland, IL | |
| Jun 13, 2:53 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Sparland/Lacon, 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1240 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSPI 131925 SVRSPI ILC123-203-132010- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 223 PM CDT THU JUN 13 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN IL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 310 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...SOUTHERN MARSHALL COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...NORTHERN WOODFORD COUNTY AT 221 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED BY A SPOTTER 21 MILES NORTHEAST OF PEORIA OR 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LACON MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM PRODUCED 1 INCH DIAMETER HAIL. AT PRESENT MOVEMENT...THE STORM WILL BE LOCATED NEAR... LACON BY 225 PM CDT WASHBURN BY 240 PM CDT TOLUCA BY 255 PM CDT ROANOKE BY 300 PM CDT BENSON BY 300 PM CDT DAMAGING HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. GET INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FnROM WINDOWS. $$ GEELHART &
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 13, 2:07 PM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 2:07 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 200 PM CDT THU JUN 13 1996 OUTFLOW BOUNDARY LEFT OVER FROM EARLIER CONVECTION AND WK S/WV MOVING ACROSS NRN SECT OF IL ATTM HAS LEAD TO RAPID DVPMNT OF TRWS ACROSS NRN PARTS OF CWA. SFC DWPTS IN THE UPR 60S AND GOOD MOIST CONV ALONG THE BOUND HAS AIDED IN DVPMNT. GOOD MOIST ALONG THIS BOUND SHOULD KEEP TRWS GOING THIS EVE. NOT MUCH IN THE WAY OF DIRECTIONAL SHEAR SO MORE OF A PULSE OR, MULTICELL TYPE STORM. GOT TO GO FOR NOW...THINGS GETTING INTERESTING. PIA 61/88 +0 SPI 63/89 60 DEC 62/89 60 CMI 61/88 80 SEIL 62/90 30 KETCHAM
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 11:11 AM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
ILZ027>031-036>038-040>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-141100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN ILLINOIS 1100 AM CDT THU JUN 13 1996 SYNOPSIS: A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH ILLINOIS LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THE COLD FRONT WILL HELP TRIGGER SOME THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER...SO SPOTTER ACTIVATION LMAY BE REQUIRED IN THESE AREAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING . KETCHAM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Stark | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria, Woodford | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall | 68 min |
| Jun 13, 3:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Marshall | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox, Stark | 39 min |
| Jun 13, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 4:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Knox | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Fulton | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Fulton | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 45 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.