Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 9:08 AM CDT for Gallatin County, Illinois. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1995, 9:08 AM CDT (14:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1995, 10:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gallatin County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KEVV 161408 SVREVV ILC059-INC129-163-161515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 908 AM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS ...GALLATIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA ...POSEY COUNTY...VANDERBURGH COUNTY AT 907 AM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY RADAR 20 TO 25 MILES WEST OF EVANSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. PERSON AROUND RIDGWAY AND SHAWNEETOWN ILLINOIS...MT VERNON AND EVANSVILLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE WHEN THESE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH. 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. ZIMMER
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, May 16, 8:40 AM CDT, 28 minutes before
INZ085>089-161900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 841 AM EST TUE MAY 16 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST INDIANA UNTIL 200 PM EST/CDT... THE WATCH INCLUDES POSEY SPENCER VANDERBURGH WARRICK AND PERRY COUNTIES...AND THE COMMUNITIES OF OF EVANSVILLE NEW HARMONY BOONVILLE ROCKPORT AND TELL CITY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. SEVERE STORMS CONTAIN DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS. PEOPLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST ILLINOxIS WILL MOVE ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHWEST INDIANA THIS MORNING. DS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 8:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Edwards, Wayne, White | 69 min |
| May 16, 8:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Wabash | 69 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.