Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 1995, 4:05 PM CDT for Clark County, Cumberland County, Illinois. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 1995, 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 1995, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clark County, IL, Cumberland County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 107 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 092106 RRA SVRSPI ILC023-035-092145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 405 PM CDT WED AUG 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...WESTERN CLARK COUNTY...EASTERN CUMBERLAND COUNTY WEATHER RADAR AT 401 PM INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TERRE HAUTE INDIANA...NEAR WESTFIELD. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH AND IS EXPECTED TO THREATEN THE TOWNS OF CASEY AND GREENUP. TAKE SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING. 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, 5 hours 35 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, 5 hours 32 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, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Edgar | 44 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
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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.