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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 1996, 5:36 PM CDT for Morgan County, Scott County, Illinois. It was in force for 39 min. 5 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
- Apr 19, 1996, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1996, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Morgan County, IL, Scott County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Winchester, IL | |
| Apr 19, 5:47 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Winchester, IL | |
| Apr 19, 5:48 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Winchester/Riggston, IL | |
| Apr 19, 6:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Jacksonville, IL | |
| Apr 19, 6:18 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Jacksonville, 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 2232 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 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 192236 TORSPI ILC137-171-192315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 536 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN IL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...MORGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...SCOTT COUNTY AT 534 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEREDOSIA. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH THE FOLLOWING TOWNS...MEREDOSIA...BLUFFS AND ARCADIA. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLE S FOR SAFER SHELTER. ACT NOW TO SAVE YOUR LIFE! $$ BYRD
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Apr 19, 2:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 2:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 210 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996 18Z SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS DEEPENING AREA OF LOW PRESS NOW CNTRD OVR SERN NE. 50 DEWPTS WERE NOW AS FAR NORTH AS C IL WITH 60S AS CLOSE AS STL AND LWV. EXPECT TRW TO DEVELOP ACROSS ERN MO AND MOV INTO WRN IL LATE THIS AFTERNOON. TEMPS ARE IN THE LOW TO MID 70S AND COULD RISE A LITTLE MORE. CAPS ARE ERODING ACCORDING TO ADAP WITH A CAP OF 2 DEGREES OR LESS ACROXSS SRN AND ERN PTNS OF CWA. CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS GOOD JUST A FEW MINOR ADJUSTMENTS NEEDED. PIA 52/69 30 SPI 55/70 50 DEC 55/69 50 CMI 54/69 50 BYRD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan | 23 min |
| Apr 18, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 30 min |
| Apr 18, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 66 min |
| Apr 18, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 46 min |
| Apr 18, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 33 min |
| Apr 18, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon | 58 min |
| Apr 18, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt | 50 min |
| Apr 18, 9:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Macon | 27 min |
| Apr 18, 9:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Moultrie, Piatt | 38 min |
| Apr 18, 9:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas | 29 min |
| Apr 18, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas | 40 min |
| Apr 19, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Moultrie, Shelby | 35 min |
| Apr 19, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas | 31 min |
| Apr 19, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria, Woodford | 49 min |
| Apr 19, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas, Edgar | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Peoria, Woodford | 49 min |
| Apr 19, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Schuyler | 57 min |
| Apr 19, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Fulton, Mason | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Marshall, Peoria, Stark | 53 min |
| Apr 19, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Morgan, Sangamon | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Logan, Tazewell | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 31 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.