Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1995, 4:33 PM CDT for Adams County, Illinois. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 1995, 4:33 PM CDT (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 1995, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 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 21:34 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, 9.6 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 501 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 346 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 430 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 132134 SVRSTL ILC001-MOC111-132215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 433 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...NORTHWESTERN ADAMS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI ...NORTHEASTERN LEWIS COUNTY AT 430 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR HAS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF CANTON IN LEWIS COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. IT WILL BE MOVING INTO THE TOWNS OF MEYER AND LIMA IN ADAMS COUNTY BY 500 PM. S4EEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OFTEN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. GKS
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, May 13, 2:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
MOZ010-018-019-027-026-ILZ095-097-131945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 202 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING OVER NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 200 PM CDT...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING OVER PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 15 TO 20 MILES WEST OF KIRKSVILLE MISSOURI MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO FAR NORTHEAST SECTIONS OF MISSOURI BETWEEN 230 AND 300 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. PEOPLE IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. RP r
Special weather statement, May 13, 2:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
MOZALL-132030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 222 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI TIL 900 PM CDT... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI TIL 900 PM CDT. THE TORNADO WATCH COVERS THAT AREA EAST OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF KIRKSVILLE TO 40 MILES WEST OF MOBERLY AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM 40 MILES WEST OF MOBERLY TO BOWLING GREEN MISSOURI. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE HANNIBAL...KIRKSVILLE...MACON AND MOBERLY MISSOURI. THE CITY OF QUINCY IN ILLINOIS IS ALSO INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FURTHER DEVELOP AS THEY MOVE INTO NORTHEAST MISSOURI BETWEEN 230 AND 400 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS..AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. PEOPLE IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS AND THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON. KEEP TUNE FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. RP
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.