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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Lincoln, IL

May 27, 1995Knox County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1995, 6:45 PM CDT for Knox County, Illinois. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 1995, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Lincoln, IL
Area
Whole counties

County Knox County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 80 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 139 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
490 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
199 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPIA 272346
TORPIA
ILC095-280030-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL
645 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEORIA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
 
   ...KNOX COUNTY
 
AT 640 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR GALESBURG. THIS
STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH...AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF
WATAGA AND HENDERSON BY 710 PM.
 
GO TO AN INSIDE ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR HOME!
 
HUNTER
 
 
 
 
 
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 6:21 PM CDTTornado WarningILXCass, Morgan54 min
May 27, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMorgan45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.