Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 1995, 3:11 AM CDT for Fulton County, Illinois. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 10, 1995, 3:11 AM CDT (08:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 1995, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fulton County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1534 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 622 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPIA 100811 RRA SVRPIA ILC057-100900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 311 AM CDT MON APR 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEORIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...FULTON COUNTY AT 310 AM CDT A SPOTTER REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN CENTRAL FULTON COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE NORRIS AND BRERETON. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL. STAY INDOORS, AWAY FROM WINDOWS! HUNTER
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, Apr 10, 3:03 AM CDT, 8 minutes before
ILZ050-051-100900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 303 AM CDT MON APR 10 1995 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 167...MORGAN AND SANGAMON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE ACROSS THESE COUNTIES THROUGH EARLY MORNING...BUT THEY ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. GEELHART
Special weather statement, Apr 10, 3:06 AM CDT, 5 minutes before
ILZ050-051-100900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 303 AM CDT MON APR 10 1995 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 167...MORGAN AND SANGAMON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE ACROSS THESE COUNTIES THROUGH EARLY MORNING...BUT THEY ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. GEELHART
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 44 min |
| Apr 9, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Mason | 47 min |
| Apr 9, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan | 38 min |
| Apr 10, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 43 min |
| Apr 10, 3:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 58 min |
| Apr 10, 5:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 61 min |
| Apr 10, 5:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign | 54 min |
| Apr 10, 10:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 22 min |
| Apr 10, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Morgan | 45 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.