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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 13, 1995Sullivan County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1995, 1:50 PM CDT for Sullivan County, Missouri. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 1995, 1:50 PM CDT (18:50 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 1995, 2:30 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Sullivan County, MO

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 255 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 358 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 726 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 85 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 418 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 396 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 May 13, 9:47 AM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 9:47 AM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
940 AM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995

SFC WMFNT CONTS TO MOV NWD ACRS NRN MO THIS MRNG AS LO-LVL MSTR ADVCTS
NWD INTO WRN MO. SFC DRYLINE XTNDS FM W OF TOP TO E OF ICT...AND 2-HR
ALTIMITER CHGS (12Z-14Z) SHOWS DECENT FALL-RISE COUPLET WITH RISES OVR
NRN OK AND FALLS OVR NRN MO/SRN IA. NEW ETA MDL THRU 12 HRS SHOWS SFC
BNDRY MOVG TO A IRK-JLN LINE BY LATE AFTN WITH WLY LO-LVL FLO BHD
BNDRY. VRY WARM MID-LVL TEMPS WL REQUIRE CONSIDERABLE INSOLATION OR STG
UVV TO BREAK CAP. WUD XPCT COMBINATION OF THE ABV-MENTIONED FACTORS TO
BRK CAP BY MID-LATE AFTN...WITH AREAS JUST E OF MKC IN MOST FAVORED
REGIONS FOR TSTMS. WIND PROFILE AND FCST CAPE SUGGESTS HI POTL FOR SVR
CONVCTN...IN LINE WITH CURNT FCST. POPS TNGHT MAY BE TOO HIGH.

MCI  82/57   52

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 13, 1:00 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 12, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Maries	45 min
May 12, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Maries	47 min
May 13, 12:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew	45 min
May 13, 12:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	25 min
May 13, 4:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	30 min
May 13, 7:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Sullivan	28 min
May 13, 7:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair, Schuyler	40 min
May 13, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair, Putnam, Schuyler	40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.