Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 1995, 7:26 PM CST for Maries County, Missouri. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 1995, 7:26 PM CST (01:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 1995, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Maries County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 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
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 1269 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOU 270130 RRA SVRCOU MOC125-270200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 726 PM CST SUN MAR 26 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...MARIES COUNTY AT 725 PM RADAR INDICATED A LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM EXTENDED FROM NEAR ROLLA TO 15 MILES WEST OF ROLLA NEAR DIXON. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. VICHY...VIENNA...AND BELLE ARE ALL IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED COUTNY. KENNEDY
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.
NWS Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 26, 3:14 PM CST, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 3:14 PM CST, 4 hours 12 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 300 PM CST SUN MAR 26 1995 CURNT OBS INDC DRYLINE MOVG THRU KC METRO ATTM. SATL SHOWS COLD AIR CU OVR CNTRL KS WITH STG TSTM DVLPMNT ACRS E OK/SW MO. ADAP AND MAP FILES SHOW BEST MSTR CNVG ALNG WRM FNT FROM 30I SE TWRD CNTRL MO. MAY BE HARD PRESSED FOR DVLPMNT OVR W/NW MO UNTIL CAA/LIFT OF CLD FNT ARRIVES. WILL BE WATCHING CNTRL MO AND SRN SECS OF CWA FOR SVR DVLPMNT INTO EVE HRS. UPR LOW STILL FIGHTING BLOCK AND ONLY MAKING SLOW DRIFT TO THE EAST. WV LOOP SHOWS STG SYS OUT 160W WHICH WILL ASSIST RDGG ALNG W CST AND CONT TROF OVR ROCKIES. NGM HAD FROPA MCI THIS EVE AND LTL VVEL AFTER THAT BUT C OLDR TEMPS...BACK TO NORMAL...AS SFC FNT PUSHES ACRS ST TNGT. MCI 42/53 20/10 BROWNING
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 26, 4:37 PM CST, 2 hours 49 minutes before
MOZ028-029-037-043-KSZ103>105-270010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 435 PM CST SUN MAR 26 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR ALL OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 139 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA. THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT EAST OF A LINE FROM RICHMOND TO PLEASANT HILL TO BUTLER UNTIL 8 PM. DRY AIR HAS PUSHED INTO THE METROPOLI"TAN AREA AND THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NO LONGER BE NEEDED IN THE KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA. BROWNING
Special weather statement, Mar 26, 5:50 PM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes before
MOZ028-029-037-043-KSZ103>105-270200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 550 PM CST SUN MAR 26 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH 139 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN MISSOURI... RAY...CARROLL...LAYFAYETTE...CASS AND BATES. DRIER AIR HAS PUSHED INTO PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED. BROWNING
Special weather statement, Mar 26, 5:54 PM CST, 1 hour 32 minutes before
MOZ028-029-037-043-KSZ103>105-270200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 550 PM CST SUN MAR 26 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH 139 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN MISSOURI... RAY...CARROLL...LAYFAYETTE...CASS AND BATES. DRIER AIR HAS PUSHED INTO PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED. BROWNING
Special weather statement, Mar 26, 5:56 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
MOZ030-031-038-043-053-270200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 550 PM CST SUN MAR 26 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH 139 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN MISSOURI... RAY...CARROLL...LAYFAYETTE...CASS AND BATES. DRIER AIR HAS PUSHED INTO PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED. BROWNING
Special weather statement, Mar 26, 7:10 PM CST, 16 minutes before
MOZ067-054-045-039-032-270400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 710 PM CST SUN MAR 26 1995 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 139 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI... CHARITON SALINE PETTIS HENRY ST CLAIR JOHNSON PB
Special weather statement, Mar 26, 7:14 PM CST, 12 minutes before
MOZ067-054-045-039-032-270400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 710 PM CST SUN MAR 26 1995 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 139 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...V IN CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI... CHARITON SALINE PETTIS HENRY ST CLAIR JOHNSON PB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 7:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pulaski | 45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.