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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this tornado warning at May 13, 1995, 5:44 PM CDT for Warren County, Illinois. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 1995, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 1995, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Warren County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 86 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 132245 TORMLI ILC187-132315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 544 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN QUAD CITIES IA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...WARREN COUNTY AT 545 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN ROSEVILLE AND MONMOUTH. IT WILL REACH THE COUNTY LINE NEAR CAMERON BY 555 PM. THIS STORM WILL ALSO PRODUCE UP TO BASEBALL SIZED HAIL. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES! GO INSIDE A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING! AS A LAST RESORT...LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD. HENDRICKS
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 13, 4:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 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, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Putnam | 42 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.