Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 13, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 18, 1995, 1:03 PM CDT for Washington County, Illinois. It was in force for 27 min. 1 report 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, 1:03 PM CDT (18:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:06 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, 1:28 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Addieville To, IL | A tornado touched down west-southwest of Addieville damaging several homes on the southern part of town. Several roofs were partially torn off or damaged by falling trees. It crossed Interstate 64 knocking down several trees and shearing highway signs off. |
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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 212 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 181805 TORSTL ILC189-181830- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 103 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...WESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AT 104 PM..A TORNADO WAS MOVING ACROSS THE KASKASIA RIVER TOWARD DAMSTEDT. STONE CHURCH IS ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS WARNING IS AN UPGRADE TO THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING. A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH...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, 12:19 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, 1:12 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.