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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 132, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 17, 1995Miller County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1995, 3:08 AM CDT for Miller County, Missouri. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 17, 1995, 3:08 AM CDT (08:08 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 1995, 3:56 AM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Miller County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 190 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1995-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1137 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1995-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 111 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1137 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1097 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
1.7

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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 16, 9:01 PM CDT, 6 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 16, 9:01 PM CDT, 6 hours 7 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
850 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995

FIRST ROUND THROUGH...NEXT ROUND IN THE WINGS.  SATL IMAGERY SHOWS
UPR LOW LIFTG INTO AZ TNGT WITH S/W TROF IN SW FLOW MOVG INTO W KS.
GOOD TROPICAL PLUME INDCATED AND PWS ABOVE 1.3 ON 00Z SNDGS.  850 MB
FLOW HAS BECOME MORE WESTERLY BUT WILL LIKLY BACK AS S/W APPROACHES.

BIGGEST CONCERN IS FLOODING.   TROPICAL RAINFALL AND SOME TRAINING WAS
EVIDENT AND APPEARS TO BE SETTING UP AGAIN AS TSTMS MOVE EAST OUT OF KS.

CURRENT FCSTS WELL COVERED.

BROWNING

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 17, 2:10 AM CDT, 58 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
210 AM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

...STORM REPORTS FOR THE EVENING HOURS OF MAY 16 AND EARLY MORNING
HOURS OF THE 17TH...

TIME/DATE   LOCATION/COUNTY         STATE      EVENT/REMARKS

05/16/95
949 PM CDT  JOHNSON CO               KS   50-60 MPH WINDS IN EDGERTON

05/16/95
955 PM CDT  JOHNSON CO               KS   BASEBALL SIZE HAIL 5 WEST
                                          OF SPRINGHILL

05/16/95
1004 PM CDT JOHNSON CO               KS   70-80 MPH WINDS AT 199TH AND
                                          CLARE

05/16/95
1008 PM CDT MIAMI CO                 KS   GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND 50-60
                                          MPH WINDS

05/16/95    MIAMI CO                 KS   TORNADO AT 215 AND 69 NEAR
1020 PM CDT                               SPRINGHILL

05/16/95    MIAMI CO                 KS   GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL JUST NORTH
1023 PM CDT                               OF LEWISBURG

05/16/95    CASS CO                  MO   GOLBALL SIZE HAIL IN BELTON
1031 PM CDT

05/16/95    CASS CO                  MO   GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 2 WEST OF
1036 PM CDT                               PECULIAR

05/16/95    CASS CO                  MO   BASEBALL SIZE HAIL P AND HWY 7
1058 PM CDT                               NEAR PLEASANT HILL

05/16/95    JOHNSON CO               MO   NICKEL SIZE HAIL 5 NORTH
1130 PM CDT                               WARRENSBURG

05/16/95  LAFAYETTE CO                MO    POWER LINES AND SIGNS DOWN
1130 PM CDT

05/16/95  JOHNSON CO                  MO    DIME SIZE HAIL 2 NORTH OF
1135 PM CDT                                 OLATHE

05/17/95  JACKSON CO                  MO    QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN LEES
1203 AM CDT                                 SUMMIT

05/17/95  MIAMI CO                    KS    1 INCH HAIL AT HILLSDALE
1210 AM CDT                                 LAKE

05/17/95  MIAMI CO                    KS    GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL HILLSDALE
1215 AM CDT                                 LAKE

05/17/95  SALINE CO                   MO    GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT SWEET
113 AM CDT                                  SPRINGS

05/17/95  BATES CO                     MO    TREES DOWN ON HWY 18
117 AM CDT

GA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass62 min
May 16, 10:23 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXCass52 min
May 16, 10:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson42 min
May 16, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Lafayette65 min
May 16, 11:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis, Saline51 min
May 16, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson46 min
May 17, 12:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBates, Cass54 min
May 17, 12:52 AM CDTTornado WarningEAXBates, Cass38 min
May 17, 1:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHenry59 min
May 17, 1:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper, Howard, Pettis42 min
May 17, 2:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBenton41 min
May 17, 2:10 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXCooper, Henry, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Saline6 hr
May 17, 2:10 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXCass, Jackson6 hr
May 17, 2:10 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXBates6 hr
May 17, 2:10 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXHoward6 hr
May 17, 2:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMorgan42 min
May 17, 2:40 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXBenton, Morgan4 hr
May 17, 4:03 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXCamden, Miller4 hr
May 17, 4:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPlatte40 min
May 17, 4:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXMaries4 hr
May 17, 8:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBenton44 min
May 17, 8:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMorgan35 min
May 17, 8:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMiller51 min
May 17, 9:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMiller30 min
May 17, 9:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMaries45 min
May 17, 9:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSt. Clair44 min
May 17, 9:49 AM CDTTornado WarningEAXSt. Clair38 min
May 17, 10:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBenton36 min
May 17, 10:21 AM CDTTornado WarningEAXBenton25 min
May 17, 10:21 AM CDTTornado WarningEAXHickory14 min
May 17, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBates70 min
May 16, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Miami50 min
May 16, 9:48 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXMiami42 min
May 16, 9:57 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXJohnson33 min
May 16, 11:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson47 min
May 17, 12:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMiami21 min
May 17, 3:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLeavenworth42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.