Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1995, 1:39 PM CDT for Logan County, Menard County, Illinois. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 1995, 1:39 PM CDT (18:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1995, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Logan County, IL, Menard County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 1329 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1081 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSPI 231840 RRA SVRSPI ILC107-129-231915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 139 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...SOUTHWESTERN LOGAN COUNTY...EASTERN MENARD COUNTY AT 135 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED 60 MPH WINDS IN LINCOLN. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE WEST AT 20 MPH. AREAS ALONG THE LOGAN/MENARD COUNTY BORDER CAN EXPECT THE ARRIVAL OF THESE STORMS BY 2 PM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...CAPABLE OF BLOWING DOWN TREES AND DAMAGING ROOFS AND WINDOWS. GET INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS...PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS IS ALSO POSSIBLE. $$ GEELHART &
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, Jun 23, 11:35 AM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
ILZ027>031-036>038-040-041-231840- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 1135 AM CDT FRI JUN 23 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS... RADAR WAS SHOWING SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE REGION. ONE WAS IN TAZEWELL COUNTY BETWEEN PEKIN AND MORTON AND ANOTHER IN KNOX COUNTY NEAR ABINGDON. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME MORE NUMEROUS OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS THIS AFTERNOON. A VERY SLOW DRIFT WEST IN THESE STORMS WILL RESULT IN LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS. ALL WILL BRING FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING. SOME SMALL HAIL IS POSSIBLE. NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ANTICIPATED OVER THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON...HOWEVER...IF ANY SHOULD OCCUR...STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. STUMETZ
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 11:36 AM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
ILZ027>031-036>038-040-041-231840- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 1135 AM CDT FRI JUN 23 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS... RADAR WAS SHOWING SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE REGION. ONE WAS IN TAZEWELL COUNTY BETWEEN PEKIN AND MORTON AND ANOTHER IN KNOX COUNTY NEAR ABINGDON. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME MORE NUMEROUS OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS THIS AFTERNOON. A VERY SLOW DRIFT WEST IN THESE STORMS WILL RESULT IN LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS. ALL WILL BRING FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING. SOME SMALL HAIL IS POSSIBLE. NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ANTICIPATED OVER THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON...HOWEVER...IF ANY SHOULD OCCUR...STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. STUMETZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Mason, Tazewell | 44 min |
| Jun 23, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt | 35 min |
| Jun 23, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon | 46 min |
| Jun 23, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 47 min |
| Jun 23, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Piatt | 41 min |
| Jun 23, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Shelby | 42 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.