Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1995, 8:16 PM CDT for Adams County, Brown County, Illinois. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 1995, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1995, 9:12 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, IL, Brown County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2095 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 355 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 170118 SVRSTL ILC001-009-170215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 816 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...SOUTHEASTERN ADAMS COUNTY...BROWN COUNTY AT 810 PM CDT...WEATHER OBSERVER AT THE QUINCY AIRPORT REPORTED 3/4 INCH HAIL 10 MILES SOUTH OF THE AIRPORT OR NEAR PAYSON. THIS IS ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF QUINCY. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN KINGSTON...BUCKHORN AND MT STERLING SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL BETWEEN 830 PM AND 915 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. S>TAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, Apr 16, 3:20 PM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
MOZ058-162120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MISSOURI 319 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 ..A STRONG STORM IS HEADING FOR MARIES COUNTY... AT 315PM A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY HAIL AND HIGH WINDS...WAS CENTERED 20 MILES SOUTH OF JEFFERSON CITY...OR 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF VIENNA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR. THE STORM WILL BE ENTERING THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF MARIES COUNTY BY 340PM AND WILL BE IN THE VIENNA AREA AROUND 4PM. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MARIES...MILLER ...AND PULASKI COUNTIES UNTI 8PM. REAUGH
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 3:23 PM CDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before
MOZ058-162120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MISSOURI 319 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 ...CORR FOR TYPO... ..A STRONG STORM IS HEADING FOR MARIES COUNTY... AT 315PM A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY HAIL AND HIGH WINDS...WAS CENTERED 20 MILES SOUTH OF JEFFERSON CITY...OR 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF VIENNA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR. THE STORM WILL BE ENTERING THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF MARIES COUNTY BY 340PM AND WILL BE IN THE VIENNA AREA AROUND 4PM. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MARIES...MILLER ...AND PULASKI COUNTIES UNTIL 8PM. REAUGH
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 4:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
MOZ036-041-042-047>050-162300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 435 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR A PORTION OF CENTRAL MISSOURI>... THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED TO THE EAST OF CENTRAL MISSOURI...AND THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF COLUMBIA...FULTON...MEXICO...AND BOWLING GREEN.
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 6:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
MOZ051-052-059-061>065-071>075-102-ILZ098>101-170025- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 622 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #197 FOR EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 615 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THUS...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR MORE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS EASTERN MISSOURI LATER ON TONIGHT. SOME STORM COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. METZE
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 6:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
MOZ042-041-050-048-047-049-170045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 641 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN CENTRAL MISSOURI LATER TONIGHT... AT 640 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED FROM EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA...INTO SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH...AND MAY MOVE INTO PARTS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI LATER THIS EVENING. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALREADY IN EFFECT FOR MONTEAU COUNTY AND AREAS WEST...WHILE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS POSTED AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF A COLUMBIA...MACON LINE. BOTH OF THESE WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM. PEOPLE THROUGHOUT CENTRAL MISSOURI SHOULD CONTINUE TO KEEP TRACK OF WEAT RDEVELOPMENTS THROUGHOUT THE EVENING. TRUETT
Local storm report, Apr 16, 7:22 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
720 PM CST SUN APRIL 16 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
258 PM HERMANN MO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
GASCONADE COUNTY
315 PM RICHWOODS MO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
WASHINGTON COUNTY DENTING CARS
319 PM RICHWOODS MO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
WASHINGTON COUNTY COVERING THE GROUND
325 PM GERALD-NEW HAVEN MO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
FRANKLIN COUNTY
350 PM UNION MO TREE LIMBS DOWN
FRANKLIN COUNTY
408 PM HIGHWAY 67 & JJ MO WALL CLOUD REPORTED BY
S. JEFFERSON COUNTY SPOTTER
449 PM HIGHWAY 67 & 21 MO FUNNEL CLOUD
S. JEFFERSON COUNTY
455 PM HIGHWAY JJ MO DIME SIZE HAIL
S. JEFFERSON COUNTY
457 PM WOODED AREA CLOSE TO MO SPOTTER REPORT TORNADO
ST. FRANCOIS/JEFFERSON
COUNTY LINE
MET|ZEThe office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Greene | 32 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.