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Tornado Warning 39, NWS St. Louis, MO

July 25, 1995Greene County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 1995, 8:45 PM CDT for Greene County, Illinois. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 1995, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1995, 9:17 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Greene County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 177 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 1995-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 9 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 1995-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-241 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1843 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 260144
TORSTL
ILC061-260245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
845 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS
 
   ...GREENE COUNTY
 
AT 843 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO NEAR
ROODHOUSE...MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
 
IF YOU LIVE IN THE TOWNS OF ROODHOUSE...WHITE HALL...ATHENSVILLE...AND
WRIGHTS SEEK SHELTER NOW!
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT
OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL.
 
FG/TJS

The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 8:54 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXMacoupin46 min
Jul 25, 9:25 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXMacoupin50 min
Jul 25, 9:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMontgomery66 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.