Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 168, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1996, 2:26 PM CDT for Monroe County, Saint Clair County, Illinois. It was in force for 49 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 6, 1996, 2:26 PM CDT (19:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1996, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Monroe County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1194 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 10:23 AM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
MOZ009-010-018-019-026-027-034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075- 084-085-099-ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-071100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1030 AM CDT T
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox, Lewis | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Knox | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Shelby | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion, Monroe, Ralls | 60 min |
| Jun 5, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lewis | 60 min |
| Jun 5, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 68 min |
| Jun 5, 11:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Monroe, Ralls | 5 hr |
| Jun 5, 11:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Shelby | 5 hr |
| Jun 6, 1:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Monroe, Ralls | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 1:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Ralls | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Osage | 49 min |
| Jun 6, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 52 min |
| Jun 6, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin | 38 min |
| Jun 6, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Saint Louis | 44 min |
| Jun 5, 9:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Adams | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 10:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Pike | 36 min |
| Jun 6, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Randolph | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion | 45 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.