Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 197, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1995, 2:45 PM CDT for Adams County, Illinois. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 1995, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1995, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Adams County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 246 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 755 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 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 161947 RRA SVRSTL ILC001-162030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 245 PM CDT WED AUG 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...ADAMS COUNTY AT 243 PM....NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS DETECTING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF QUINCY. THE QUINCY AIRPORT REPORTED A GUST TO 71 MPH WHEN THE STORM MOVED THROUGH. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE TOWNS OF PAYSON...CAMP POINT AND KINGSTON BETWEEN 3 AND 330 PM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORYR OF DAMAGING WINDS. SEEK INSIDE SHELTER NOW! GKS/TPS &
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, Aug 16, 1:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
ILZ049-058>060-095>100-MOZ009-010-018-019-026-027-034>036-041-042- 047>052-059>064-170015- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 111 PM CDT WED AUG 16 1995 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER IN PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST ...EAST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL MISSOURI FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING... THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL...NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. THIS AREA WILL INCLUDE THE CITIES OF HANNIBAL...COLUMBIA AND ST LOUIS. THE COMBINATION OF AN UPPER WEATHER DISTURBANCE AND VARY UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL PRODUCE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS. ALSO FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LEVEL WITH STRONG AND GUSTY WIND AND LARGE HAIL. STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD KEEP ADVISED OF THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS IN CASE SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NEEDED. VA
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 1:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
ILZ049-058>060-095>100-MOZ009-010-018-019-026-027-034>036-041-042- 047>052-059>064-170015- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 111 PM CDT WED AUG 16 1995 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER IN PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST ...EAST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL MISSOURI FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING... THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL...NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. THIS AREA WILL INCLUDE THE CITIES OF HANNIBAL...COLUMBIA AND ST LOUIS. THE COMBINATION OF AN UPPER WEATHER DISTURBANCE AND VARY UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL PRODUCE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS. ALSO FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LEVEL WITH STRONG AND GUSTY WIND AND LARGE HAIL. STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD KEEP ADVISED OF THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS IN CASE SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NEEDED. VA
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Brown | 42 min |
| Aug 16, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams | 42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.