Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Lincoln, IL

Issued

Jul 19, 1997, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)

Expired

Jul 19, 1997, 5:45 PM CDT

In force

46 min

Issued by

NWS Lincoln, IL

Area

Whole counties

Counties Fulton County, IL, Knox County, IL

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 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.

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.

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SVRSPI
ILC057-095-192245-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
459 PM CDT SAT JUL 19 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  FULTON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  KNOX COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  ABINGDON
  MAQUON
  FARMINGTON
  FAIRVIEW

* AT 457 PM CDT LINCOLN DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR MONMOUTH TO ABINGDON TO JUST NORTH OF
  MAQUON...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PREPARE FOR DAMAGING
WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

MILLERz/PLAHMER

NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 19, 2:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
200 PM CDT SAT JUL 19 1997

18Z SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS SF MEANDERING NW TO SE ACROSS C IL...WITH
SLIGHTLY LOWER DEWPTS TO N OF FRONT.

PLENTY OF MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY ACROSS AREA AGAIN WITH SOME TRWS
DEVLOPING ALONG AND JUST W OF FRONT ALONG MISSISSIPPI RIVER. QUESTION
IS...WHEN AND WHERE WILL HEAVIEST RAIN FALL OVERNIGHT. MODELS STILL
POINT TO A MCS DEVELOPING OVER MN/NRN IA OVERNIGHT WHICH WILL MAKE ITS
WAY SE ALONG FRONT AND INTO CWA TOWARDS DAYBREAK. AS FOR THE REST OF
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WIDELY SCATTERED RW/TRW ACTIVITY A
POSSIBILITY UNTIL SUNSET. CURRENT FORECAST LOWS OF UPPER 60S TO LOWER
70S STILL LOOKS GOOD.

AS FOR SUNDAY...FRONT WILL BEGIN TO MAKE ITS WAY BACK TO N WITH RW/TRW
ACTIVITY DEVELOPING ALONG IT.  HIGHS SHOULD BE AROUND 90.

PIA  69/90   54
SPI  70/91   44
DEC  69/90   43
CMI  68/89   45
LWV  71/93   43

BYRD

In the hours before

ILZ027>031-036>038-040>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-201200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
1100 AM CDT SAT JUL 19 1997

SYNOPSIS: A FRONT ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS WILL INTERACT WITH A WARM
...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS ALREADY IN PLACE ACROSS THE AREA TO
PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

EVEN THOUGH THUNDERSTORMS ARE BEING FORECASTED FOR THE AREA...THEY ARE
NOT EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS.

BYRD

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.