Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1995, 11:45 AM CDT for Madison County, Saint Clair County, Illinois; Saint Louis County, City of Saint Louis, Missouri. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 1995, 11:45 AM CDT (16:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1995, 12:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Madison County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL, City of Saint Louis, MO, Saint Louis County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 1272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1029 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 221647 RRA SVRSTL ILC119-163-MOC183-189-510-221730- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1145 AM CDT SAT JUL 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS ...WESTERN MADISON COUNTY...WESTERN ST CLAIR COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...EASTERN ST CHARLES COUNTY...EASTERN ST LOUIS COUNTY AND THE INDEPENDENT CITY OF ...ST LOUIS CITY AT 1145 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HEADING THROUGH THE ST LOUIS METROPOLITAN AREA MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCED STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS. COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE ALTON... COLLINSVILLE...GRANITE CITY...ST. LOUIS...CENTREVILLE...AND BELLEVILLE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! BE PREPARED FOR DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. METZE/RP
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, Jul 22, 9:26 AM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
MOZ027-034-035-ILZ095-096-097-221515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 925 AM CDT SAT JUL 22 1995 AT 915 PM CDT...NWS DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF QUINCY THROUGH THE QUNICY...HANNIBAL AREAS AND WEST TO 20 MILES WEST OF PARIS IN MONROE COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST WEST OF HANNIBAL... AND 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF QUNICY. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 50 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND SMALL HAIL. THE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH THE COMMUNITIES OF MT STERLING.... KINGSTON...KINDERHOOK IN ILLINOIS AND NEW LONDON AND MARK TWAIN STATE PARK BETWEEN 930 AND 945 AM CDT. PEOPLE OVER THESE AREAS SHOULD KEEP TUNE FOR LATERS STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. PRZYBYLINSKI
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 9:33 AM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
MOZ027-034-035-ILZ095-096-097-221515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION FOR TIME... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 925 AM CDT SAT JUL 22 1995 AT 915 AM CDT...NWS DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF QUINCY THROUGH THE QUNICY...HANNIBAL AREAS AND WEST TO 20 MILES WEST OF PARIS IN MONROE COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST WEST OF HANNIBAL... AND 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF QUNICY. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 50 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND SMALL HAIL. THE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH THE COMMUNITIES OF MT STERLING.... KINGSTON...KINDERHOOK IN ILLINOIS AND NEW LONDON AND MARK TWAIN STATE PARK BETWEEN 930 AND 945 AM CDT. PEOPLE OVER THESE AREAS SHOULD KEEP TUNE FOR LATER STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. PRZYBYLINSKI
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 10:15 AM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
MOZ001>115-KSZ102>105-ILZ095>102-221600- MISSOURI SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1015 AM CDT SAT JUL 22 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR MOST OF MISSOURI FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE QUINCY TO ST. JOSEPH. STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD KEEP ADVISED OF THE LATEST FORECASTS FOR POSSIBLE SKYWARN ACTION FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT. BECHTOLD
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 10:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
MOZ001>115-KSZ102>105-ILZ095>102-221600- MISSOURI SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1015 AM CDT SAT JUL 22 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR MOST OF MISSOURI FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE QUINCY TO ST. JOSEPH. STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD KEEP ADVISED OF THE LATEST FORECASTS FOR POSSIBLE SKYWARN ACTION FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT. BECHTOLD
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 11:15 AM CDT, 30 minutes before
MOZ061-063-064-221700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1115 AM CDT SAT JUL 22 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE ST LOUIS METROPOLITAN AREA... AT 1115 AM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM WESTERN ST CHARLES TO WESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY NEAR HILLSBORO. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH ST LOUIS COUNTY AND ST LOUIS CITY BETWEEN 1120 AM AND 1140 AM THIS SATURDAY MORNING. GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH AND BLINDING RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. WDB
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 11:16 AM CDT, 29 minutes before
MOZ061-063-064-221700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1115 AM CDT SAT JUL 22 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE ST LOUIS METROPOLITAN AREA... AT 1115 AM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM WESTERN ST CHARLES TO WESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY NEAR HILLSBORO. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH ST LOUIS COUNTY AND ST LOUIS CITY BETWEEN 1120 AM AND 1140 AM THIS SATURDAY MORNING. GUSTY W$INDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH AND BLINDING RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. WDB
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 10:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun | 42 min |
| Jul 22, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 47 min |
| Jul 22, 9:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike, Ralls | 50 min |
| Jul 22, 11:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 45 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1995Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.