Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 1995

Tornado Warning 16, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 9, 1995DeWitt County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at May 9, 1995, 8:11 PM CDT for DeWitt County, Illinois. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 9, 1995, 8:11 PM CDT (01:11 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 1995, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Lincoln, IL
Area
Whole counties

County DeWitt County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 209 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, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 1995-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 173 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, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 1995-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -133 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
173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
711 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSPI 100111
TORSPI
ILC039-100145-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL
811 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
 
   ...NORTHERN DE WITT COUNTY
 
AT 810 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN MIDLAND CITY
AND WAYNESVILLE...37 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD MOVING TO THE
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
 
TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE WAYNESVILLE...HALLSVILLE...CLINTON
...AND WAPELLA.
 
 
TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR SAFER SHELTER.
ACT NOW TO SAVE YOUR LIFE!
$$
PEARSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 7:17 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChristian, Shelby43 min
May 9, 7:43 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMcLean47 min
May 9, 7:58 PM CDTTornado WarningILXShelby32 min
May 9, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXShelby46 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Illinois, 1995Every tornado warning in 1995Tornadoes 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.