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Tornado Warning 39, NWS St. Louis, MO

June 10, 1996Clinton County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 1996, 8:33 PM CDT for Clinton County, Illinois. It was in force for 27 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 10, 1996, 8:33 PM CDT (01:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1996, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Clinton County, IL

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 186 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 1996-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 409 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 1996-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
409 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
899 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 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 110135
TORSTL
ILC027-110200-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
833 PM CDT MON JUN 10 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS
 
   ...WESTERN CLINTON COUNTY
 
AT 830 PM...A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED NEAR ALBERS...IN WESTERN CLINTON
COUNTY.
 
THE STORM PRODUCING THIS FUNNEL CLOUD WAS MOVING VERY LITTLE.  PEOPLE IN
THE TOWNS OF ALBERS...GERMANTOWN...AVISTON...AND BREESE AREA SHOULD BE
ON THE LOOKOUT.  TAKE COVER IF YOU SEE THIS FUNNEL CLOUD APPROACHES THE
GROUND...
 
AUTOMOBILES AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED. GO TO A STURDY
BUILDING OR LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD.
 
TRUETT

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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.