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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 9, 1996Peoria County, Stark County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at May 9, 1996, 9:52 PM CDT for Peoria County, Stark County, Illinois. It was in force for 53 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 9, 1996, 9:52 PM CDT (02:52 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 1996, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Peoria County, IL, Stark County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:52 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 97 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 552 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 696 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -495 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.2
Supercell composite: -2.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSPI 100256 COR
TORSPI
ILC143-175-100345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
952 PM CDT THU MAY 9 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

   ...PEORIA COUNTY

IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS

   ...STARK COUNTY

AT 955 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES EAST OF ALTONA TO 5 MILES WEST OF
ELMWOOD. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. SOME OF THE
TOWNS AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS WILL BE TOULON...WYOMING...ELMWOOD...
AND PRINCEVILLE.

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!
$$

MILLER
/CORRECTION TO FIRST PARAGRAPH/

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 May 9, 1:57 PM CDT, 7 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 1:57 PM CDT, 7 hours 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
155 PM CDT THU MAY 9 1996

NO TIME FOR A DISCUSSION.  WATCH BOX AND FLOODING CONTS ATTM.  SPECIAL
18Z SOUNDING SHOWED LI'S -3 AT ILX.  SFC DEWPTS IN THE MID 60S ACROSS
CWA.  RWS/TRWS COULD FURTHER AGREVATE FLOODING IN CWA SO CONT FFA FOR
CEN IL.

PIA      62/70  +6
SPI      63/75  +5
DEC      62/75  85
CMI      61/75  55
SERN IL  65/78  33

KETCHAM

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 9, 4:40 PM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
440 PM CDT THU MAY 9 1996

TIME (CDT) ...CITY/LOCATION...       ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       ...COUNTY LOCATION...

0245 PM    VARNA                     IL   WIND DAMAGE
05/08/96   MARSHALL                       SECOND STORY WALL OF HOME
                                          BLOWN DOWN...MOBILE HOME
                                          DAMAGED...TREES AND POWER
 &                                         LINES DOWN...QUONSET HUT
                                          BLOWN OVER.

MILLER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 8:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Knox	45 min
May 9, 9:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Knox	52 min
May 10, 2:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Knox	44 min
May 10, 4:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Logan, Menard	32 min
May 10, 7:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Shelby	30 min
May 10, 7:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Moultrie	43 min
May 10, 11:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Moultrie, Shelby	3 hr
May 10, 12:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	Douglas, Vermilion	6 hr

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Illinois, 1996 Every tornado warning in 1996 Tornadoes in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.