Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1995, 2:45 PM CDT for Coles County, Illinois. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1995, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1995, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Coles County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 1776 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1113 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 19, 11:20 AM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
ILZ027>031-036>038-040-041-192130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 1120 AM CDT SAT AUG 19 1995 ...A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS TODAY... HOT AND HUMID WEATHER WILL CONTINUE ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON. HIGH TEMPERATURES TODAY WILL AGAIN REACH INTO THE MIDDLE 90S...AND COMBINED WITH DEW POINTS IN THE MID TO UPPER 70S ...WILL PRODUCE HEAT INDICIES IN THE 105 TO 110 DEGREE RANGE. THE COMBINATION OF VERY HIGH TEMPERATURES AND HIGH HUMIDITY WILL MAKE ANY TYPE OF STRENUOUS OUTDOOR ACTIVITY DANGEROUS. THE ELDERLY AND YOUNG ARE THE MOST AT RISK...AS WELL AS PEOPLE IN POOR HEALTH AND OUTDOOR PETS. WHEN THE HEAT INDEX REACHES SUCH EXTREME VALUES HEAT ILLNESSES SUCH AS SUNSTROKE...HEAT CRAMPS...AND HEAT EXHAUSTION ARE POSSIBLE WITH PROLONGED EXPOSURE. PLEASE KEEP THESE HEAT WAVE SAFETY RULES IN MIND TODAY: *AVOID OR SEVERLY LIMIT STRENUOUS OUTDOOR ACTIVITY. *IF YOU MUST BE OUTSIDE...TAKE FREQUENT BREAKS AND DRINK PLENTY OF WATER OR OTHER NON-ALCOHOLIC FLUIDS. *WEAR LIGHTWEIGHT LIGHT-COLORED CLOTHING. *CHECK ON RELATIVES AND NEIGHBORS WHO ARE ELDERLY OR ILL. STUMETZ
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 11:21 AM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
ILZ027>031-036>038-040-041-192130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 1120 AM CDT SAT AUG 19 1995 ...A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS TODAY... HOT AND HUMID WEATHER WILL CONTINUE ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON. HIGH TEMPERATURES TODAY WILL AGAIN REACH INTO THE MIDDLE 90S...AND COMBINED WITH DEW POINTS IN THE MID TO UPPER 70S ...WILL PRODUCE HEAT INDICIES IN THE 105 TO 110 DEGREE RANGE. THE COMBINATION OF VERY HIGH TEMPERATURES AND HIGH HUMIDITY WILL MAKE ANY TYPE OF STRENUOUS OUTDOOR ACTIVITY DANGEROUS. THE ELDERLY AND YOUNG ARE THE MOST AT RISK...AS WELL AS PEOPLE IN POOR HEALTH AND OUTDOOR PETS. WHEN THE HEAT INDEX REACHES SUCH EXTREME VALUES HEAT ILLNESSES SUCH AS SUNSTROKE...HEAT CRAMPS...AND HEAT EXHAUSTION ARE POSSIBLE WITH PROLONGED EXPOSURE. PLEASE KEEP THESE HEAT WAVE SAFETY RULES IN MIND TODAY: *AVOID OR SEVERLY LIMIT STRENUOUS OUTDOOR ACTIVITY. *IF YOU MUST BE OUTSIDE...TAKE FREQUENT BREAKS AND DRINK PLENTY OF WATER OR OTHER NON-ALCOHOLIC FLUIDS. *WEAR LIGHTWEIGHT LIGHT-COLORED CLOTHING. *CHECK ON RELATIVES AND NEIGHBORS WHO ARE ELDERLY OR ILL. STUMETZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | McLean | 50 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.