Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1995, 5:19 PM CDT for White County, Illinois. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 1995, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1995, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County White County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 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 KEVV 282219 RRA SVREVV ILC193-282245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 519 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS ...WHITE COUNTY AT 515 PM RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF CARMI ILLINOIS. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REACH CARMI BY 525 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM MOVE INDOORS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NIEMEIER
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 28, 12:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
INZ062-063-066-070>080-084-089-281840- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1250 PM EST WED JUN 28 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE INTENSIFYING OVER SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA... AT 1245 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT SHOWED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER JACKSON AND JENNINGS COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL PASS ACROSS THE CITIES OF NORTH VERNON AND GREENSBURG BETWEEN 100 AND 200 PM EST. PEOPLE IN THOSE AREAS CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH AND SMALL HAIL. THE INDIANA STATE POLICE AT SEYMOUR REPORTED MARBLE SIZE HAIL SOUTH OF SEYMOUR AROUND 1230 PM EST. IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS YOUR LOCATION...BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK PROTECTIVE ACTION. GCL
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 12:51 PM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
INZ062-063-066-070>080-084-089-281840- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1250 PM EST WED JUN 28 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE INTENSIFYING OVER SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA... AT 1245 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT SHOWED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER JACKSON AND JENNINGS COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL PASS ACROSS THE CITIES OF NORTH VERNON AND GREENSBURG BETWEEN 100 AND 200 PM EST. PEOPLE IN THOSE AREAS CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH AND SMALL HAIL. THE INDIANA STATE POLICE AT SEYMOUR REPORTED MARBLE SIZE HAIL SOUTH OF SEYMOUR AROUND 1230 PM EST. IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS YOUR LOCATION...BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK PROTECTIVE ACTION. GCL
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.