Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1995, 6:55 PM CDT for Fayette County, Illinois. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 1995, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1995, 7:26 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 497 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1337 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 212358 RRA SVRSTL ILC051-220045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 655 PM CDT WED JUN 21 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...NORTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY AT 655 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF VANDALIA. THE STORM WAS MOVING WEST-SOUTHWEST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. AREAS OF FAYETTE COUNTY NORTH OF VANDALIA WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM...INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF WRIGHTS CORNER AND RAMSEY. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAM8AGING WINDS. SEEK INSIDE SHELTER NOW! TRUETT
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 21, 6:15 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
ILZ066-220000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 615 PM CDT WED JUN 21 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HEADING FOR THE EFFINGHAM AREA... AT 615 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF EFFINGHAM. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL REACH THE EFFINGHAM AREA BETWEEN 630 AND 7 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM. PEOPLE IN EFFINGHAM COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF EFFINGHAM...SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS THESE STORMS APPROACH. TRUETT
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 6:16 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
ILZ066-220000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 615 PM CDT WED JUN 21 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HEADING FOR THE EFFINGHAM AREA... AT 615 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF EFFINGHAM. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL REACH THE EFFINGHAM AREA BETWEEN 630 AND 7 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS I~N EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM. PEOPLE IN EFFINGHAM COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF EFFINGHAM...SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS THESE STORMS APPROACH. TRUETT
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Effingham | 37 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.