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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this tornado warning at May 9, 1995, 5:29 PM CDT for Whiteside County, Illinois. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 1995, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Whiteside County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 51 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 092230 TORMLI ILC195-092330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 529 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN QUAD CITIES IA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS ...WHITESIDE COUNTY AT 530 PM A TORNADO WAS 10 MILES SOUTH OF ALBANY ILLINOIS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. IF YOU LIVE IN THE TOWNS OvF ALBANY OR MORRISON TAKE SHELTER NOW! A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND! TAKE SHELTER NOW! MEYER &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 4 hours 27 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, 2 hours 22 minutes before
IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007-009- 015>018-024>026-034-035-092300- 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, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Rock Island | 66 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, 5:48 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 |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.