Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1995, 4:24 PM CDT for Rock Island County, Illinois; Scott County, Iowa. It was in force for 66 min. 6 reports 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
- May 9, 1995, 4:24 PM CDT (21:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Scott County, IA, Rock Island County, IL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado F3 | Stockton, IA | This tornado destroyed 26 farm buildings, 20 of them with major damage. Nine homes were hit, one destroyed, two with major damage and six with minor damage. Seven of the nine homes were farmhouses. Roxanne Paper, with baby boy Logan in arm, was downstairs w |
| May 9, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Walcott, IA | |
| May 9, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Le Clair, IA | |
| May 9, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Princeton, IA | |
| May 9, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Long Grove, IA | |
| May 9, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Long Grove, IA | Two businesses in Park View, a car wash and a business garage, received major damage. A Kwik Shop, insurance building and six cars received minor damage also in the Park View area. |
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. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 11 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
- 142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMLI 092124 SVRMLI IAC163-ILC161-092230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 424 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN QUAD CITIES IA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL IOWA ...SCOTT COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS ...ROCK ISLAND COUNTY AT 423 PM CDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR MUSCATINE TO NEAR WEST LIBERTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE QUAD CITIES WILL BE AFFECTED BETWEEN 430 AND 445 PM. ELDRIDGE WILL SEE THE STORMS AT 440 PM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING GO^LF BALL SIZED HAIL. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS! HELGESON
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 9, 1:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007-009- 015>018-024>026-034-035-091900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 103 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A SMALL PORTION OF SOUTHEAST IOWA UNTIL 7PM CDT... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHEAST IOWA COUNTIES OF KEOKUK... JEFFERSON AND VAN BUREN UNTIL 7PM CDT. THIS INCLUDES THE COMMUNITIES OF SIGOURNEY... FAIRFIELD AND KEOSAUQUA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE WATCH AREA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ACROSS THE REST OF THE TWO STATE LATER THIS AFTERNOON ANBD EVENING. SOME OF THESE COULD BECOME SEVERE ALSO. HENDRICKS
Special weather statement, May 9, 3:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007-009- 015>018-024>026-034-035-092300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 307 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR KEOKUK... JEFFERSON AND VAN BUREN COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST IOWA UNTIL 7PM CDT... ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE TWO STATE REGION UNTIL 9PM CDT... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHEAST IOWA COUNTIES OF KEOKUK... JEFFERSON AND VAN BUREN UNTIL 7PM CDT. ANOTHER TORNADO WATCH HAS JUST BEEN ISSUED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE TWO STATE REGION UNTIL 9PM CDT. THIS INCLUDES THE QUAD CITIES... BURLINGTON... DUBUQUE... FREEPORT... PRINCE*TON... MUSCATINE AND GENESEO. HENDRICKS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Hancock | 54 min |
| May 9, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henry | 41 min |
| May 9, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Warren | 49 min |
| May 9, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Bureau | 68 min |
| May 9, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Rock Island | 34 min |
| May 9, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Whiteside | 61 min |
| May 9, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jo Daviess | 42 min |
| May 9, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Carroll, Whiteside | 66 min |
| May 9, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Bureau, Whiteside | 48 min |
| May 9, 3:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Louisa, Muscatine | 42 min |
| May 9, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Johnson | 30 min |
| May 9, 3:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Cedar, Muscatine | 54 min |
| May 9, 3:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Louisa | 54 min |
| May 9, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Benton, Linn | 48 min |
| May 9, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Des Moines | 53 min |
| May 9, 4:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Scott | 42 min |
| May 9, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jones | 50 min |
| May 9, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Cedar, Clinton | 58 min |
| May 9, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Muscatine | 15 min |
| May 9, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Clinton, Scott | 51 min |
| May 9, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Jones, Linn | 46 min |
| May 9, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Clinton | 47 min |
| May 9, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Delaware, Dubuque | 60 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.