Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1995, 7:52 PM CDT for Putnam County, Illinois. It was in force for 23 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 1995, 7:52 PM CDT (00:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 1995, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 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 00:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 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
- 1648 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 637 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.6
- Supercell composite
- -2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMLI 140053 RRA SVRMLI ILC155-140145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 752 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN QUAD CITIES IA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...PUTNAM COUNTY AT 750 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM PUTNAM TO MCNABB MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS SHOULD EXIT THE COUNTY BY 810 PM. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE GOLF BALL SIZEHAIL. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! 8HENDRICKS
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, 3 hours 44 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
Special weather statement, May 13, 6:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
IAZ065-051-063-064-076-052-077-140145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 639 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA... THE TORNADO WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL IOWA HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...TAMA...JASPER...POWESHIEK AND KEOKUK. THE TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...BENTON...CEDAR...IOWA...JOHNSON...LINN AND WASHINGTON. MEYER
Special weather statement, May 13, 6:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
IAZ065-051-063-064-076-052-077-140145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED TO ADD EXP TIME... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 639 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA... THE TORNADO WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL IOWA HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...TAMA...JASPER...POWESHIEK AND KEOKUK. THE TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...BENTON&...CEDAR...IOWA...JOHNSON...LINN AND WASHINGTON. MEYER
Special weather statement, May 13, 7:40 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
ILZ026-140100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 740 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995 ...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM ADVISORY FOR WARREN COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE URBAN AN D SMALL STREAM ADVISORY FOR WARREN COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. AT 735 PM... THE FLOOD WATERS HAD RECEDED. MINOR STREET FLOODING OCCURRED. HENDRICKS
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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.