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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Quad Cities, IA

July 27, 1995Jackson County, Iowa; Jo Daviess County, Illinois

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this tornado warning at Jul 27, 1995, 5:17 PM CDT for Jackson County, Iowa; Jo Daviess County, Illinois. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 27, 1995, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 1995, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Jackson County, IA, Jo Daviess County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 73 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 832 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 851 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMLI 272217
TORMLI
IAC097-ILC085-272315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
517 PM CDT THU JUL 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN QUAD CITIES IA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL IOWA
 
   ...JACKSON COUNTY
 
 
IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS
 
   ...JO DAVIESS COUNTY
 
AT 513 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR ST
DONATUS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL CROSS THE MISSISSIPPI
RIVER AND PASS NEAR GALENA BY 525 PM.
 
THIS WARNING REPLACES AND EXTENDS THE EARLIER WARNING FOR JO DAVIESS
COUNTY.
 
IIF YOU LIVE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM..j.TAKE SHELTER NOW!
 
GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!
 
T MEYER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Clayton	35 min
Jul 27, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Buchanan, Delaware	59 min
Jul 27, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Clayton	40 min
Jul 27, 3:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Buchanan, Delaware	59 min
Jul 27, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Cedar	67 min
Jul 27, 4:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Delaware	61 min
Jul 27, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Clinton	65 min
Jul 27, 5:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Dubuque, Jones	63 min
Jul 27, 5:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Scott	56 min
Jul 27, 6:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Buchanan	55 min
Jul 27, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Cedar, Jones	60 min
Jul 27, 6:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Scott	57 min
Jul 27, 6:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Linn	61 min
Jul 27, 4:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Jo Daviess	57 min
Jul 27, 4:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Stephenson	68 min
Jul 27, 6:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Henry	58 min
Jul 27, 6:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Whiteside	67 min
Jul 27, 6:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Mercer	69 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.