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Tornado Warning 37, NWS St. Louis, MO

June 5, 1996Pike County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1996, 10:24 PM CDT for Pike County, Illinois. It was in force for 36 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
Jun 5, 1996, 10:24 PM CDT (03:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1996, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
36 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 03:28 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 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 204 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 1996-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 11 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1401 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
167 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 060325
TORSTL
ILC149-060400-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1024 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
 
   ...WESTERN PIKE COUNTY
 
AT 1024 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO JUST SOUTH OF PAYSON IN
ADAMS COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH...AND WILL BE
AFFECTING THE CITIES OF HULL....KINDERHOOK...BARRY...AND NEW CANTON.
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXAdams60 min
Jun 5, 9:56 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXAdams34 min
Jun 5, 10:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXPike68 min
Jun 6, 2:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMonroe, Saint Clair49 min
Jun 6, 2:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMonroe, Randolph46 min
Jun 6, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMarion45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.