Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 1995, 3:16 PM CDT for Clark County, Edgar County, Illinois. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 1995, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 1995, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clark County, IL, Edgar County, IL
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 3029 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 854 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSPI 092020 RRA SVRSPI ILC023-045-092100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 316 PM CDT WED AUG 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...SOUTHERN EDGAR COUNTY ...CLARK COUNTY... WEATHER RADAR AT 313 PM CDT INDICATED A SEVERE STORM DEVELOPING 40 MILES SOUTH OF CHAMPAIGN NEAR THE TOWN OF KANSAS. THE SEVERE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH AND IS EXPECTED TO THREATEN THE TOWNS OF WESTFIELD...CLEONE...CLARKSVILLE AND INCLOSE BY 4 PM. TAKE SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILHDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LIGHTNING KILLS...SO STAY AWAY FROM TELEPHONES. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. $$ SKIPPER
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Aug 9, 10:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before
ILZ030-031-091545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 1030 AM CDT WED AUG 9 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR WOODFORD... MARSHALL...AND PUTNAM COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CDT FOR WOODFORD...MARSHALL...AND PUTNAM COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HUNTER
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 10:33 AM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
ILZ030-031-091545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 1030 AM CDT WED AUG 9 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR WOODFORD... MARSHALL...AND PUTNAM COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CDT FOR WOODFORD...MARSHALL...AND PUTNAM COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HUNTER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Cumberland | 40 min |
| Aug 9, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cumberland | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 35 min |
| Aug 9, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 35 min |
| Aug 9, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.