Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT for St. Clair County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1995, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County St. Clair County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 525 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 85 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 299 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 17, 2:58 PM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 17, 2:58 PM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 300 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995 ACTIVITY HAS HIT A LULL FINALLY WITH ONLY ACTION ACRS FAR SRN PART OF FCST AREA. REISSUED FFW FOR 4 COUNTIES BASED ON RADAR ESTIMATES OF CONTD RAIN 3/4"+ IN ONE HOUR. SFC FNT LIES JUST S OF AREA FM ABOUT MOBERLY TO NEVADA. BEST AMS LIES S OF BDRY AND WILL EXPECT CHC SVR TO BE THERE TONITE WITH R++. METRO THROUGH MACON WEDGE LIKELY TO STILL SEE SOME GOOD RAINS...AND FFA LIKELY STILL NEEDED. FAR NW/NC MO DEEPER INTO THE COOL AND STABLE AIR AND A BIT LESS OF A THREAT. BEST POPS TONITE PER GUIDANCE...BUT STILL A REASONABLE POP THU TOO...ESPECIALLY EARLY. FINALLY MAY DRY OUT FOR THU NITE AND FRI AND WILL FCST SUCH AS HIGH PRES SETTLES IN BEHIND DEPARTING SYS. GUID TEMPS CLOSE AND APPEAR REASONABLE WITH EXPECTD CONDS. MCI 47/57 +7 WELVAERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Benton, Hickory | 51 min |
| May 17, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Camden | 41 min |
| May 18, 10:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pulaski | 41 min |
| May 18, 10:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Pulaski | 38 min |
| May 18, 10:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Maries | 52 min |
| May 18, 11:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Camden, Miller | 52 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.