Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Feb 26, 1996, 7:29 PM CST for Shelby County, Illinois. It was in force for 46 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
- Feb 26, 1996, 7:29 PM CST (01:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 1996, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Shelby County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 7:35 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Moweaqua, 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 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 590 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1087 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSPI 270130 TORSPI ILC173-270215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 729 PM CST MON FEB 26 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...NORTHERN SHELBY COUNTY AT 730 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DECATUR. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 3*5 MPH AND WILL THREATEN THE TOWNS OF MOWEAQUA AND FINDLAY. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR SAFER SHELTER. ACT NOW TO SAVE YOUR LIFE! $$ GEELHART
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 6:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian | 34 min |
| Feb 26, 6:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian | 46 min |
| Feb 26, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon, Moultrie, Piatt | 61 min |
| Feb 26, 7:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas | 38 min |
| Feb 26, 11:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 39 min |
| Feb 27, 12:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 54 min |
| Feb 27, 1:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Woodford | 30 min |
| Feb 27, 2:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Mason | 33 min |
| Feb 27, 2:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean, Tazewell | 32 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.