Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1995, 6:33 PM CDT for Christian County, Illinois. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 1995, 6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1995, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Christian County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 637 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSPI 092333 SVRSPI ILC021-100015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 633 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...CHRISTIAN COUNTY WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 28 MILES SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD NEAR FARMERSVILLE. THE SEVERE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE FOLLOWING TOWNS...MORRISONVILLE ...TAYLORVILLE...AND STONINGTON. TAKE SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LIGHTNING KILLS...SO STA4Y AWAY FROM TELEPHONES. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. $$ SKIPPER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 58 min |
| May 9, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Stark | 24 min |
| May 9, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Menard, Morgan, Sangamon | 51 min |
| May 9, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Mason | 41 min |
| May 9, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 35 min |
| May 9, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 50 min |
| May 9, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Logan, Menard | 45 min |
| May 9, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 34 min |
| May 9, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Fulton | 40 min |
| May 9, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 47 min |
| May 9, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Logan | 45 min |
| May 9, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 54 min |
| May 9, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan | 48 min |
| May 9, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Peoria | 52 min |
| May 9, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Woodford | 69 min |
| May 9, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 46 min |
| May 9, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan | 45 min |
| May 9, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | McLean | 58 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.