Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 11, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 18, 1995, 12:19 PM CDT for Monroe County, Illinois. It was in force for 41 min. 6 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 12:19 PM CDT (17:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:19 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 12:37 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Waterloo, IL | A tornado briefly touched down on the western side of town and lifted the roof off a business. In one area where several homes were damaged, a recreational vehicle was picked up and set down in the middle of a destroyed house. Trees and large branches were a |
| May 18, 12:40 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Monroe City To, IL | A tornado initially touched down at the intersection of Mayestown and Koch Roads then heavily damaged the second story of a brick home. Several farm buildings were flattened as well. The tornado tracked northeast and crossed the intersection of County Road K |
| May 18, 12:42 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Mayestown To, IL | A tornado touched down near the intersection of Fischer and Rock Roads and moved northeast. Two homes sustained minor roof damage, a number of farm buildings were knocked down, and two grain bins were toppled. |
| May 18, 12:44 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Burksville To, IL | A tornado touched down southwest of Burksville knocking down several trees and power lines. It moved northeast and through the town of Burksville shearing off trees and damaging about 20 homes and businesses. Northeast of town, two farms also sustained damag |
| May 18, 12:46 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Burksville To, IL | A tornado touched down southeast of Burksville in open country then traveled through a residential area as it moved northeast. Five homes sustained minor roof damage, although several garages and large utility buildings suffered severe damage where the roof w |
| May 18, 12:48 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Hecker, IL | A tornado touched down along Sportman Road just south of Highway 3 knocking down nearby trees. As the tornado moved northeast, a home and barn were damaged less than a mile northeast of Highway 3. The roof of the home had structural roof damage and debris fr |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 248 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 181720 TORSTL ILC133-181800- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1219 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS ...MONROE COUNTY AT 1220 PM...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR FESTUS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. VALMYER...WARTBERG AND WATERLOO ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY AND SEEK SHELTER NOW!
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, 12:38 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, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Perry | 24 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.