Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1995, 4:39 PM CDT for Shelby County, Illinois. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 1995, 4:39 PM CDT (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1995, 5:21 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Shelby County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 86 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 WUUS1 KSPI 232139 RRA SVRSPI ILC173-232230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 439 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...SHELBY COUNTY AT 436 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHERN PART OF SHELBY COUNTY...FROM COWDEN TO NEAR NEOGA. OTHER SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS SHELBY COUNTY. THE STORMS ARE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE WEST AT 10 MPH. TAKE SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LIGHTNING KILLS...SO STAY AWAY FROM TELEPHONES. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. $$ SKIPPER/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, 5 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, 5 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
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 2:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
ILZ027>031-036>038-040-041-232150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 249 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 1995 THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER CENTRAL ILLINOIS MAINLY EAST OF THE ILLINOIS RIVER. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AN LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE REMAINDER OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS THIS AFTERNOON. STUMETZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Menard | 36 min |
| 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 |
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.