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Tornado Warning 46, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 17, 1996Edgar County, Vermilion County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 1996, 6:47 PM CDT for Edgar County, Vermilion County, Illinois. It was in force for 43 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: Jun 17, 1996, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 1996, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Edgar County, IL, Vermilion County, IL

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 1323 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1130 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSPI 172348
TORSPI
ILC045-183-180030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
647 PM CDT MON JUN 17 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN IL HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

   ...NORTHERN EDGAR COUNTY
   ...SOUTHERN VERMILION COUNTY
 
AT 643 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 30 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF DANVILLE...ALONG HIGHWAY 36 BETWEEN NEWMAN AND HUME. THIS STORM
DID PRODUCE A FUNNEL CLOUD IN FAR EASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY NEAR NEWMAN.
THE STORM PRODUCING THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30
MPH.

TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE HUME...S~IDELL...AND
GEORGETOWN.

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
Jun 17, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Macon	44 min
Jun 17, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Logan	39 min
Jun 17, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, McLean	26 min
Jun 17, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Shelby	38 min
Jun 17, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper	36 min
Jun 17, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Edgar	48 min
Jun 17, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Cumberland, Jasper	33 min
Jun 17, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Crawford	33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.