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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Quad Cities, IA

June 7, 1995Carroll County, Jo Daviess County, Illinois

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1995, 7:18 PM CDT for Carroll County, Jo Daviess County, Illinois. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1995, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1995, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Carroll County, IL, Jo Daviess County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 75 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 1995-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1922 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 1995-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1922 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1489 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMLI 080019 RRA
SVRMLI
ILC015-085-080115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
718 PM CDT WED JUN 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN QUAD CITIES IA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS
 
   ...CARROLL COUNTY...SOUTHERN JO DAVIESS COUNTY
 
AT 717 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNERSTORM 7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF MT CARROLL MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STORM WILL REACH
MT CARROLL BY 8PM CDT. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL. IF YOU LIVE
IN MT CARROLL TAKE SAFE SHELTER AWAY FROM WINDOWS NOW!!!
 
 
BERG

The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNWhiteside41 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.