Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Lincoln, IL

Issued

Jun 13, 1996, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)

Expired

Jun 13, 1996, 4:00 PM CDT

In force

39 min

Issued by

NWS Lincoln, IL

Area

Whole counties

Counties Knox County, IL, Stark County, IL

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KSPI 132022
SVRSPI
ILC095-175-132100-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
321 PM CDT THU JUN 13 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN IL HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

   ...KNOX COUNTY

IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS

   ...STARK COUNTY
 
AT 318 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY DOPPLER
RADAR 14 MILES EAST OF GALESBURG OR IN THE VICINITY OF VICTORIA
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE
WILLIAMSFIELD...TOULON...AND WYOMING.

TAKE SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND
TELEPHONES. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT...FLOODING OF STREETS AND
STREAMS IS ALSO POSSIBLE.

$$
GEELHART

NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 13, 2:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

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

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

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

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.