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Tornado Warning 36, NWS St. Louis, MO

June 5, 1996Adams County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1996, 9:56 PM CDT for Adams County, Illinois. It was in force for 34 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: Jun 5, 1996, 9:56 PM CDT (02:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Adams County, IL

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 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
Jun 5, 10:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 51	Quincy, 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 190 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1505 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 060258
TORSTL
ILC001-060330-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
956 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
 
   ...ADAMS COUNTY
 
AT 956 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO JUST NORTHWEST OF
QUINCY.
 
THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 TO 40 MPH.  PEOPLE IN THE QUINCY
AREA...AS WELL AS THOSE IN PAYSON AND MARBLEHEAD...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 SHOUL.D BE ABANDONED. GO TO A STURDY
BUILDING OR LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD.
 
TRUETT/RP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Adams	60 min
Jun 5, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Pike	68 min
Jun 5, 10:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Pike	36 min
Jun 6, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Monroe, Saint Clair	49 min
Jun 6, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Monroe, Randolph	46 min
Jun 6, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Marion	45 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.