Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 34, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1996, 8:43 PM CDT for Pike County, Illinois. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report 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 27, 1996, 8:43 PM CDT (01:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1996, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pike County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:45 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 27, 8:45 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Perry, 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 493 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 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 280144 TORSTL ILC149-280215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 843 PM CDT MON MAY 27 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...NORTHEASTERN PIKE COUNTY AT 843 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO JUST NORTHWEST OF GRIGGSVILLLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE GRIGGSVILLE...PERRY....CHAMBERSBURG...AND VALLEY CITY SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL. AUTOMOBILES AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED. GO TO A STURDY BUILDING OR LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD. TRUETT/GKS
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams | 41 min |
| May 27, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams, Brown, Pike | 45 min |
| May 27, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Adams, Brown, Pike | 40 min |
| May 27, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 42 min |
| May 27, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Greene, Macoupin | 50 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.