Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1996, 9:25 PM CDT for Adams County, Illinois; Marion County, Missouri. It was in force for 35 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 3, 1996, 9:25 PM CDT (02:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1996, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, IL, Marion County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:29 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1392 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 416 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 040225 SVRSTL ILC001-MOC127-040300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 925 PM CDT FRI MAY 3 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...ADAMS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI ...EASTERN MARION COUNTY AT 925 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF QUINCY ILLINOIS. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH...AND WILL BE AFFECTING THE QUINCY AREA SHORTLY. SOME OTHER TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE CAMP POINT AND PAYSON. THIS IS A DANGE6ROUS STORM! BE PREPARED FOR DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. TRUETT
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, May 3, 7:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
ILZ102-MOZ048-049-057>059-062-065-069>076-081>087-092-096>100-105> 112-114-040100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 702 PM CDT FRI MAY 3 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 700 PM...THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. THE IMMEDIATE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER APPEARS TO HAVE ENDED AT THIS TIME. REMEMBER...A FLASH FLzOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA FOR THE REST OF TONIGHT AS MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP LATER TONIGHT WITH HEAVY RAINS POSSIBLE. GKS
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox, Lewis | 48 min |
| May 4, 7:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway | 45 min |
| May 4, 8:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 45 min |
| May 4, 9:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 15 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1996Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.