Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1995, 8:17 PM CDT for Buchanan County, Missouri. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 1995, 8:17 PM CDT (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Buchanan County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 103 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 090118 RRA SVRMCI MOC021-090200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 817 PM CDT SAT APR 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI ...BUCHANAN COUNTY AT 815 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO NORTHWEST BUCHANAN COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WAS NEAR THE ST. JOSEPH AREA AND WILL BE MOVING TO NEAR EASTON MISSOURI BETWEEN 830 TO 845 PM. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE GOLF BALL HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt | 46 min |
| Apr 8, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Holt | 57 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
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.