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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Lincoln, IL

June 20, 1995Edgar County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1995, 8:49 PM CDT for Edgar County, Illinois. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 1995, 8:49 PM CDT (01:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 1995, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Lincoln, IL
Area
Whole counties

County Edgar County, IL

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 304 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1995-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3262 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1995-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
3262 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
933 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.4
Supercell composite
7.4

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXTazewell44 min
Jun 20, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXDouglas27 min
Jun 20, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXChristian30 min
Jun 20, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXDouglas, Moultrie40 min
Jun 20, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXColes42 min
Jun 20, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXDouglas49 min
Jun 21, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXEdgar55 min
Jun 21, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXColes, Cumberland52 min
Jun 21, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMoultrie, Shelby53 min
Jun 21, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXPeoria36 min
Jun 21, 6:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMcLean, Woodford66 min
Jun 21, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXShelby28 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.