Tornado Warning 8, NWS Lincoln, IL

Issued

Apr 19, 1996, 4:14 PM CDT (21:14 UTC)

Expired

Apr 19, 1996, 4:45 PM CDT

In force

31 min

Issued by

NWS Lincoln, IL

Area

Whole counties

Counties Coles County, IL, Douglas County, IL

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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 192114
TORSPI
ILC029-041-192145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
414 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN IL HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

   ...COLES COUNTY
   ...DOUGLAS COUNTY
 
AT 412 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO LOCATED
5 MILES NORTHWEST OF MATTOON.

THE STORM CONTAINING THE TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT
40 MPH AND SHOULD MOVE THROUGH THE FOLLOWING TOWNS
...MATTOON...ARCOLA...KEMP AND HUMBOLDT.


TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON MOhBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR SAFER SHELTER.
ACT NOW TO SAVE YOUR LIFE!
$$

BYRD

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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.