Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 11, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 1996, 6:14 PM CDT for Clinton County, Washington County, Illinois. It was in force for 46 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
- Apr 19, 1996, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clinton County, IL, Washington County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 2232 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 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 192315 TORSTL ILC027-189-200000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 614 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...CLINTON COUNTY...NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AT 615 PM..A TORNADO WAS DETECTED BY THE ST LOUIS WEATHER RADAR. THE STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF FREEBURG...THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH...CITIES IN THE PATH ARE GERMANTOWN...OKAWAVILLE...TRENTON...CARLYLE. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL. SEEK SHELTER NOW IN A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM. YOUR LIFE AND THE LIVES OF THOSE AROUND YOU MAY DEPEND ON YOUR ACTIONS. VA
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams | 54 min |
| Apr 19, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Jersey | 57 min |
| Apr 19, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Pike | 52 min |
| Apr 19, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jersey | 51 min |
| Apr 19, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Washington | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin, Madison | 55 min |
| Apr 19, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Brown | 37 min |
| Apr 19, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Monroe, Saint Clair | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Greene | 40 min |
| Apr 19, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Calhoun | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Clair | 44 min |
| Apr 19, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 31 min |
| Apr 19, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Randolph | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Randolph | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 54 min |
| Apr 19, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Clinton, Marion | 49 min |
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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.