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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 16, 1995Gallatin County, Illinois

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1995-05-16Temperature 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1995-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 8:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDEdwards, Wayne, White69 min
May 16, 8:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDWabash69 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.