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Tornado Warning 27, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 3, 1996, 5:09 PM CDT for Madison County, Illinois. It was in force for 36 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 1996, 5:09 PM CDT (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1996, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 5:10 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Wood River, IL | |
| May 3, 5:11 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Edwardsville, IL | |
| May 3, 5:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Highland, IL |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 1179 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 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 032210 TORSTL ILC119-032245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 509 PM CDT FRI MAY 3 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS ...MADISON COUNTY AT 508N PM RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF EDWARDSVILLE...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED IN EDWARDSVILLE. EDWARDSVILLE IS IN THE PATH. RESIDENTS SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. JPK &
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Saint Clair | 38 min |
| May 2, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Randolph | 49 min |
| May 2, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Clair, Washington | 43 min |
| May 3, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun | 34 min |
| May 3, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jersey | 34 min |
| May 3, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jersey, Madison | 48 min |
| May 3, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Clinton | 46 min |
| May 3, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Bond, Clinton | 45 min |
| May 3, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion | 42 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.