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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 13, 1995Fulton County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at May 13, 1995, 5:15 PM CDT for Fulton County, Illinois. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 1995, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 1995, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Whole counties

County Fulton County, IL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 13, 5:55 PM CDT	Tornado F4	Ipava To, IL	A tornado touched down 1 NE of Ipava and traveled to the northeast for seven miles, lifting and dissipating 2 NE of Lewistown. The tops of some high power line structures were broken off and 12 homes were destroyed. Numerous livestock were killed. Numerous

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 501 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 346 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 430 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPIA 132217
TORPIA
ILC057-132315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
515 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEORIA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
 
   ...FULTON COUNTY
 
AT 515 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO FULTON
COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. SOME COMMUNITIES
IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE VERMONT...TABLE GROVE...CUBA...AND
CANTON.
 
IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING, STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
AND GO TO THE ZLOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE!
 
WATERHOUSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 5:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Fulton, Knox	59 min
May 13, 5:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Peoria	55 min
May 13, 5:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Knox	48 min
May 13, 6:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Mason, Tazewell	59 min
May 13, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Marshall, Stark	65 min
May 13, 6:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Fulton	71 min
May 13, 6:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Fulton	64 min
May 13, 6:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Woodford	56 min
May 13, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Peoria	55 min
May 13, 6:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Fulton	61 min
May 13, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Tazewell	55 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.