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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 5, 1996Fayette County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1996, 3:02 AM CDT for Fayette County, Illinois. It was in force for 28 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 5, 1996, 3:02 AM CDT (08:02 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1996, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Fayette County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 133 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 1996-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 1996-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
801 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
212 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 KSTL 050803
SVRSTL
ILC051-050830-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
302 AM CDT SUN MAY 5 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS
 
   ...SOUTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY
 
AT 300 AM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF VANDALIA
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
 
TOWNS IN THE PATH INCLUDE ST. PETER AND WILL CROSS INTERSTATE 57 NEAR
FARINA.
 
ONE INCH OR LARGER HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! BE PREPARED FOR DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY RINSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
JPK

The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 2:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMontgomery45 min
May 5, 2:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBond48 min
May 5, 3:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXFayette31 min
May 5, 2:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXRandolph3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 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.