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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this tornado warning at May 9, 1995, 7:08 PM CDT for Jo Daviess County, Stephenson County, Illinois. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 1995, 7:08 PM CDT (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jo Daviess County, IL, Stephenson County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -75 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 100010 TORMLI ILC177-085-100100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 708 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN QUAD CITIES IA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...STEPHENSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS ...JO DAVIESS COUNTY AT 705 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED STRONG INDICATIONS OF A TORNADO NEAR MOUNT CARROLL MOVING NORTH AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. BY 715 PM...IT WILL ENTER THE JO DAVIES...STEPHENSON...AND CARROLL COUNTY LINE. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE PEARL CITY...MASSBACH...LORAN...AND KENT. IF YOU ARE IN A CAR...GO INSIDE A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING! AS A LAST RESORT...LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD. HELGESON
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, 3:07 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute 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
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.