Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1995, 1:40 PM CDT for Perry County, Illinois. It was in force for 24 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 1:40 PM CDT (18:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 2:04 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perry County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 346 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 181842 SVRSTL ILC145-181930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 140 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...PERRY COUNTY AT 140 PM...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF PINCKNEYVILLE AND JUST WEST OF DU QUOIN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. DU QUOIN AND TODDS MILL ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OFTEN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF OUTDOORS...SEEK INSIDE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AS/FG
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 18, 10:26 AM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
MOZ001>115-ILZ095>102-181900- MISSOURI SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1025 AM CDT THU MAY 18 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MOST OF MISSOURI EXCEPT THE WEST PORTION FOR THIS AFTERNOON. THIS AREA IS EAST OF A LINE FROM BETHANY IN HARRISON COUNTY TO WARRENSBURG IN JOHNSON COUNTY TO CASSVILLE IN BARRY COUNTY. THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE ST JOSEPH...THE KANSAS CITY METROPLITAN AREA...OR JOPLIN. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE LARGE HAIL. STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD KEEP ADVISED OF THE LATEST FORECAST FOR POSSIBLE SKYWARN ACTION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS MORNING AND THIS AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, May 18, 12:47 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
ILZ102-101-181815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1245 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995 AT 1245 PM...A TORNADO WAS SIGHTED BY SKYWARN SPOTTERS JUST SOUTH OF BELLEVILLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AND WILL MOVE ACROSS SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE AND NEW BEADEN. A SECOND TORNADO WAS JUST SOUTH OF MILLSTADT. THE TOWN OF FREEBURG IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. TAKE COVER NOW! AS/FG &
Special weather statement, May 18, 1:26 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 125 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995 MOZ034>036-041-042-047>050-192200- AUDRAIN-BOONE-CALLAWAY-CAMDEN-COLE-MONITEAU-MONROE- OSAGE-PIKE-PULASKI-RALLS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BOWLING GREEN...COLUMBIA...JEFFERSON CITY 125 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI... AT 125 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR nINDICATED THE STRONGEST STORMS HAVE MOVED TO THE EAST OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI. THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS DIMINISHED ACROSS THIS AREA...THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 11:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Clinton, Madison, Monroe, Randolph, Saint Clair, Washington | 4 hr |
| May 17, 11:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Perry | 4 hr |
| May 17, 11:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Effingham, Fayette | 4 hr |
| May 17, 11:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Bond | 4 hr |
| May 17, 11:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Jersey | 4 hr |
| May 17, 11:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Marion | 4 hr |
| May 18, 12:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Monroe | 41 min |
| May 18, 12:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Clair | 52 min |
| May 18, 12:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Randolph | 51 min |
| May 18, 1:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Washington | 27 min |
| May 18, 1:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Clinton | 42 min |
| May 18, 1:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Randolph | 35 min |
| May 18, 1:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Washington | 32 min |
| May 18, 1:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Marion | 40 min |
| May 18, 2:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Fayette | 27 min |
| May 18, 2:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Effingham | 43 min |
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.