Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1995, 6:33 PM CDT for Putnam County, Illinois. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 1995, 6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 1995, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Putnam County, IL
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 501 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 346 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 430 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 KMLI 132335 SVRMLI ILC155-140015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 633 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN QUAD CITIES IA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...PUTNAM COUNTY AT 633 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED ABOUT 14 MILES TO THE SOUTHWEST OF PUTNAM. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR THE TOWN OF PUTNAM BY 645 PM... AND MC NABB BY 655 PM. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE GOLF BALL TO BASEBALL SIZED HAIL. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! HENDRICKS
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 13, 4:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
ILZ009-015-016-024-IAZ065-066-067-068-078-088-089-099-ILZ002-007- 001-IAZ051-040-041-042-063-054-087-064-053-076-052-098-077-ILZ017- 034-025-035-132215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 407 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995 TORNADO WATCH #368 FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN IOWA PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL IOWA IN EFFECT UNTIL 900PM THIS SATURDAY EVENING. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING CONTIES IN EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS... ...IN IOWA... DELAWARE DUBUQUE JACKSON JONES BENTON CEDAR IOWA JOHNSON KEOKUK LINN POWESHIEK TAMA WASHINGTON CLINTON HENRY LOUISA MUSCATINE SCOTT DESMOINES LEE BUCHANAN VAN BUREN JEFFERSON ...IN ILLINOIS... ROCK ISLAND MERCER WARREN HENDERSON MCDONOUGH HANDCOCK ALSO...TORNADO WATCH #371 FOR MOST OF WESTERN ILLINOIS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100PM THIS SATURDAY EVENING. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WESTERN ILLINOIS... JO DAVIESS STEPHENSON CARROLL WHITESIDE BUREAU PUTNAM HENRY ALL OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERvN ILLINOIS ARE UNDER A TORNADO WATCH THIS SATURDAY EVENING...PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO..COMMERCIAL RADIO..OR TV FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION. HOLSTEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 4:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Henderson | 51 min |
| May 13, 4:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Hancock | 51 min |
| May 13, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Warren | 51 min |
| May 13, 4:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Hancock | 52 min |
| May 13, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Henderson, Warren | 52 min |
| May 13, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | McDonough | 51 min |
| May 13, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Warren | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.