Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 1995, 3:13 PM CDT for Grundy County, Illinois. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 1995, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1995, 3:38 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grundy County, IL
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 662 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 543 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 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 KCHI 272013 TORCHI ILC063-272100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 313 PM CDT TUE JUN 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHICAGO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST ILLINOIS ...GRUNDY COUNTY AT 310 PM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND AT VERONA IN SOUTHWEST GRUNDY. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH ANrD WILL AFFECT THE TOWN OF MORRIS BY 4 PM. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! GONSOWSKI &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 27, 11:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before
ILZ001>094-IAZ065>068-INZ001-281100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 1100 AM CDT TUE JUN 27 1995 ...ILLINOIS SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. KAHN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Iroquois | 43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.