Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 5, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 1996, 5:23 PM CDT for Brown County, Illinois. It was in force for 37 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
- Apr 19, 1996, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1996, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brown County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 2232 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 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 192225 TORSTL ILC009-192300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 523 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...EASTERN BROWN COUNTY AT 525 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS DETECTING A TORNADO NEAR MT STERLING. IT WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ZINTO RIPLEY BY 540 PM. TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT NOW! GKS
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams | 54 min |
| Apr 19, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Jersey | 57 min |
| Apr 19, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Pike | 52 min |
| Apr 19, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jersey | 51 min |
| Apr 19, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Washington | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin, Madison | 55 min |
| Apr 19, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Monroe, Saint Clair | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Greene | 40 min |
| Apr 19, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Calhoun | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Clair | 44 min |
| Apr 19, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 31 min |
| Apr 19, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Clinton, Washington | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Randolph | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Randolph | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 54 min |
| Apr 19, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Clinton, Marion | 49 min |
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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.