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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Quad Cities, IA

May 27, 1995Whiteside County, Illinois

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1995, 7:41 PM CDT for Whiteside County, Illinois. It was in force for 64 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, 7:41 PM CDT (00:41 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1995, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area
Whole counties

County Whiteside County, IL

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 27, 8:10 PM CDTTornado F0Lyndon, ILA tornado touched down briefly on Interstate 88 near mile marker 27. No damage was reported.

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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 210 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 280041
TORMLI
ILC195-280145-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
741 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN QUAD CITIES IA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS
 
   ...WHITESIDE COUNTY
 
AT 740 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN NORTHERN HENRY
COUNTY MOVING INTO WHITESIDE COUNTY SOUTH OF ERIE. THIS STORM IS MOVING
NORTH AT 35 MPH...AND WILL MOVE INTO THE PROPHETSTOWN AREA BY 750 PM.
 
 
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, 7:32 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBureau58 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.