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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Quad Cities, IA

May 27, 1995Bureau County, Illinois

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1995, 7:32 PM CDT for Bureau County, Illinois. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 1995, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1995, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area
Whole counties

County Bureau County, IL

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 27, 7:45 PM CDTTornado F0Sheffield, ILA tornado touched down just on the edge of town causing severe damage to a large barn on the Robert Vander-Meersch farm. Some trees were also twisted and damaged at this time. The short damage path of this tornado skipped into town where it destroyed several

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 160 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 1995-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 907 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 1995-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 278 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
907 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
278 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
310 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.6
Supercell composite
11.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMLI 280033
TORMLI
ILC011-280130-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
732 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN QUAD CITIES IA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS
 
   ...BUREAU COUNTY
 
AT 728 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO MOVING INTO WESTERN
BUREAU COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF I80. THIS AREA WILL PASS NEAR MINERAL AROUND
735 AND NEAR SHEFFIELD AT 740 PM.
 
MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM IS TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
 
GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 7:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNWhiteside64 min
May 27, 8:29 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBureau, Putnam46 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.