Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 186, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1995, 6:55 PM CDT for Pike County, Illinois. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 1995, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1995, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pike County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 617 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 758 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 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 KSTL 260001 RRA SVRSTL ILC149-260045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 655 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 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 WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...EASTERN PIKE COUNTY AT 655 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF GRIGGSVILLE...JUST NORTH OF HIGHWAY 36. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. THE TOWNS OF GRIGGSVILLE...PERRY...AND MAYSVILLE ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM AND SHOULD PREPARE FOR HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER...STRONG WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OFTEN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. FG/TJS
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 25, 2:48 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
ILZ095-252030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 248 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 1995 ...STRONG WINDS ARE POSSIBLE NORTH OF QUINCY... AT 245 PM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE HANCOCK-ADAMS COUNTY LINE NORTH OF QUINCY ILLINOIS. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR BUT HAS BEEN SHOWING SIGNS OF PRODUCING STRONG WIND GUSTS NEAR AND JUST SOUTH OF IT ACROSS NORTHERN ADAMS COUNTY. IF YOU LIVE IN THE COMMUNITIES OF LIMA...LORAINE...MARCELLINE AND WOODVILLE YOU CAN EXPECT WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS 40 MILES AN HOUR BY 330 PM. IF OUTDOORS...MOVE INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SHEA
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 2:52 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
ILZ095-252030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 248 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 1995 ...STRONG WINDS ARE POSSIBLE NORTH OF QUINCY... AT 245 PM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE HANCOCK-ADAMS COUNTY LINE NORTH OF QUINCY ILLINOIS. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR BUT HAS BEEN SHOWING SIGNS OF PRODUCING STRONG WIND GUSTS NEAR AND JUST SOUTH OF IT ACROSS NORTHERN ADAMS COUNTY. IF YOU LIVE IN THE COMMUNITIES OF LIMA...LORAINE...MARCELLINE AND WOODVILLE YOU CAN EXPECT WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS 40 MILES AN HOUR BY 330 PM. IF OUTDOORS...MOVE INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SHEA
Local storm report, Jul 25, 4:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
400 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0200 PM 5SW KAHOKA MO TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.
7/25/95 CLARK COUNTY REPORTED BY CO.SHERIFF.
SHEALocal storm report, Jul 25, 4:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
400 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0200 PM 5SW KAHOKA MO TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.
7/25/95 CLARK COUNTY REPORTED BY CO.SHERIFF.
SHEANearby
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.