Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1995, 7:14 PM CDT for Doniphan County, Kansas; Holt County, Missouri. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 1995, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Doniphan County, KS, Holt County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 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
- 1681 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1907 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 090016 RRA SVRMCI KSC043-MOC087-090100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 714 PM CDT SAT APR 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST KANSAS ...DONIPHAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI ...SOUTHERN HOLT COUNTY AT 715 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES TO THE WEST OF HIGHLAND MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL IN FALLS CITY NEBRASKA. THIE CITIES OF OF HIGHLAND AND OREGON ARE IN THE DIRECT PATH OF THIS STORM AND SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR HAIL TO GOLFBALL SIZE AND DAMAGING WINDS. 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. &
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 Apr 8, 3:04 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 3:04 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 300 PM CDT SAT APR 8 1995 ANOTHER STRNG CAP OVER CWA THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS MAY PUT A LID ON TSTM DEVELOPMENT DESPITE DECENT NUMBERS IN OTHER INDICES. AT 19Z...SFC LI'S RANGED FROM -2 TO -8 FROM N TO S ACRS CWA...CAPE VALUES ARE MUCH HIGHER THAN YESTERDAY PM AND THERE APPEAR TO BE MORE LOW LVL CNVGNC OVER NRN MO SINCE FNTL POS IS FURTHER S THAN AT THIS TIME YESTERDAY. BUT THE CAPPING SEEMS TO BE TOO STRNG ONCE AGAIN ATTM. VIS LOOPS AS OF 19Z SHOWS FEW LINES OF CU OVER ERN KS AND WRN MO. THE AIR IS JUICY ENOUGH FOR TSTM DEVELOPMENT BUT QUESTION REMAINS...WILL VORT MAX MVNG ACRS NE THIS EVNG BE ENOUGH TO BREAK LID. NO NGM PCGRIDDS DATA THIS PM BUT ETA GRIDDED DATA SHWS MOISTURE CNVGNC FIELDS AND QPF FCST FURTHER S THAN LAST NIGHT'S TSTMS IN RESPONSE TO SFC FNT BEING FURTHER S. ATTM SEE NO REASON TO CHANGE 50 PERCENT POP FOR TNT IN NW MO ZONES. SUN LKS INTERESTING TO SAY THE LEAST. BOTH MODELS EJECT STRN VORT MAXES NORTHWARD ACRS KS SUN EVE. OUT OF ALL THREE MODELS...ETA HINTING AT BEING THE SLOWEST IN DRAGGING A CD FNT THRU WRN MO. STRNG 24 UNIT VORT MAX PROGGED OVER SRN NM IN BASE OF TROF POSITION SUGGESTS SLOWER MOVMEMENT OF FNT AND MAY BE ON TO SOMETHING WITH CLOSED LOW BEING FURTHER SOUTH IN POTENTIAL R/S EVENT FOR MON AND TUE. THE TREND HAS BEEN SLOWER AND DEEPER ALL ALONG WITH THIS SYSTEM. GUIDANCE NUMBERS LK OK FOR TNT BUT WITH ANY SUNSHINE ON SUN...CAN SEE TEMPS HIGHER SO TO KEEP SOME CONTINUITY WITH OUR CRNT FCST SUGGEST LOW 70S ON SUN FOR WRN MO...A CAT OR TWO ABOVE THE NUMBERS. ALSO FAVOR COMBINING SUN NIGHT AND MON FCST WITH A 30 PERCENT POP SINCE TIMING OF SRT WV$S COMING OUT OF THIS TROF IS SKETCHY AT BEST. MCI 56/72 44 BODNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 43 min |
| Apr 8, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 49 min |
| Apr 8, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Holt | 57 min |
| Apr 8, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 43 min |
| Apr 8, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clinton, DeKalb | 55 min |
| Apr 8, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 55 min |
| Apr 8, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess | 39 min |
| Apr 8, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clinton | 66 min |
| Apr 8, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell | 42 min |
| Apr 8, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Ray | 48 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.