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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 16, 1995Linn County, Macon County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 3:18 AM CDT for Linn County, Macon County, Missouri. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 16, 1995, 3:18 AM CDT (08:18 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1995, 4:15 AM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Linn County, MO, Macon County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 259 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1995-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 20 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1995-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 177 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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 15, 8:42 PM CDT, 6 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 15, 8:42 PM CDT, 6 hours 36 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 1:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson64 min
May 16, 1:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay52 min
May 16, 2:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXClay, Jackson4 hr
May 16, 2:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Lafayette45 min
May 16, 3:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis, Saline66 min
May 16, 3:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXCass4 hr
May 16, 4:02 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXHenry, Johnson, Pettis4 hr
May 16, 4:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHenry26 min
May 16, 4:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBenton49 min
May 16, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDeKalb33 min
May 16, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDaviess69 min
May 16, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSullivan61 min
May 16, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay47 min
May 16, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass, Jackson60 min
May 16, 5:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMacon51 min
May 16, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Lafayette68 min
May 16, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis56 min
May 16, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHolt44 min
May 16, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper, Howard59 min
May 16, 2:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXJohnson4 hr

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.