Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 1:56 AM CDT for Jackson County, Missouri. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1995, 1:56 AM CDT (06:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1995, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -819 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1753 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 318 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 160656 SVRMCI MOC047-095-160800- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 156 AM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI ...CLAY COUNTY...JACKSON COUNTY AT 155 AM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING THROUGH DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT INDEPENDENCE AND BLUE SPRINGS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR $ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. BROWNING
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 15, 8:42 PM CDT, 5 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 15, 8:42 PM CDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 830 PM CDT MON MAY 15 1995 SATL INDCS NEARLY ANCHORED CNVTN OVR W KS IS SPRDG CI ACRS ST. H2O IMAGERY INDCS KS CNVTN FIRING AS JET MAX ROTATES INTO SRN ROCKIES. CURNT FCSTS IN LINE WITH CHC IN FCST OVRNGT AS LOW LVL CNVG PROGD TO INCR AND PSBLTY OF RESIDUAL CNVTN FROM KS ACTIVITY AS WELL. MCS DVLPG OVR OK PNHDL WILL LIKELY MOVE EAST AGAIN TNGT AS TKNS ANDf OLD E-W BNDRY SHOULD LEAD ACTVTY ALNG RED RVR...THUS KEEPING RNFL FROM THIS COMPLEX TO S. OVRNGT LOWS WILL BE MILD WITH CLDS AND WINDS. BROWNING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 1:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay | 52 min |
| May 16, 2:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson | 4 hr |
| May 16, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette | 45 min |
| May 16, 3:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn, Macon | 57 min |
| May 16, 3:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis, Saline | 66 min |
| May 16, 3:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cass | 4 hr |
| May 16, 4:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Henry, Johnson, Pettis | 4 hr |
| May 16, 4:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 26 min |
| May 16, 4:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Benton | 49 min |
| May 16, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | DeKalb | 33 min |
| May 16, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess | 69 min |
| May 16, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Sullivan | 61 min |
| May 16, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay | 47 min |
| May 16, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson | 60 min |
| May 16, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon | 51 min |
| May 16, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette | 68 min |
| May 16, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 56 min |
| May 16, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt | 44 min |
| May 16, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 59 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1995Every 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.