Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 1995, 5:36 AM CDT for Champaign County, Illinois. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 10, 1995, 5:36 AM CDT (10:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 1995, 6:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Champaign County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 425 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KSPI 101039 RRA SVRSPI ILC019-101130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 536 AM CDT MON APR 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...NORTHERN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY AT 535 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHWEST CHAMPAIGN COUNTY...15 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHAMPAIGN...NEAR FISHER. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE STORM SHOULD REACH RANTOUL BY 600 AM CDT. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. $$ AUTEN
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, Apr 10, 3:03 AM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
ILZ050-051-100900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 303 AM CDT MON APR 10 1995 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 167...MORGAN AND SANGAMON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE ACROSS THESE COUNTIES THROUGH EARLY MORNING...BUT THEY ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. GEELHART
Special weather statement, Apr 10, 3:06 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
ILZ050-051-100900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 303 AM CDT MON APR 10 1995 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 167...MORGAN AND SANGAMON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE ACROSS THESE COUNTIES THROUGH EARLY MORNING...BUT THEY ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. GEELHART
Special weather statement, Apr 10, 3:43 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
ILZ047-048-050-051-100915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 343 AM CDT MON APR 10 1995 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 167...CASS...MENARD...MORGAN AND SANGAMON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE ACROSS THESE COUNTIES THROUGH EARLY MORNING...BUT THEY ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. AUTEN
Special weather statement, Apr 10, 5:20 AM CDT, 16 minutes before
ILZ036-101200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 520 AM CDT MON APR 10 1995 ...THE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR FULTON COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED ACROSS FULTON COUNTY THIS MORNING...DIMINISHING THE CHANCE FOR FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS ACROSS THE AREA. HUNTER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 44 min |
| Apr 9, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Mason | 47 min |
| Apr 9, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan | 38 min |
| Apr 10, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 43 min |
| Apr 10, 3:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 49 min |
| Apr 10, 3:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 58 min |
| Apr 10, 5:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 61 min |
| Apr 10, 10:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 22 min |
| Apr 10, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Morgan | 45 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.