Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1995, 9:04 PM CDT for Camden County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 1995, 9:04 PM CDT (02:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1995, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Camden County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 272 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOU 180206 SVRCOU MOC029-180245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 904 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...WESTERN CAMDEN COUNTY AT 903PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 40 MILES NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF HERMITAGE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES PER HOUR. THIS STORM IS PART OF A LINE OF STORMS THAT HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF WINDS TO 80 MILES PER HOUR...LARGE HAIL...AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE LINN CREEK...CAMDENTON... BRANCH...MACKS CREEK...CLIMAX SPRINGS...AND HURRICANE DECK. THE SOUTHWESTERN HALF OF THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS IS ALSO INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERBE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT INTO TOMORROW MORNING AS WELL. REAUGH &
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, 8:18 PM CDT, 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 17, 8:18 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 800 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995 SHOWERS AND TSTMS MOVING BACK INTO METRO AREA LIFTED OVER SFC BNDRY WHICH IS CLOSE TO A NEVADA TO AIZ TO STL LINE. SATL SHOWS A S/W LIFTING THROUGH E KS ATTM AND WILL PROVIDE A BREAK FROM THE RAIN FOR KC AREA FOR SEVERAL HOURS ONCE CURRENT RAIN MOVES OUT. FURTHER SOUTH...MARGINAL SVR AND HVY RAIN STILL OCCURRING. WILL HAVE TO EXTEND FFW FOR BATES...HENRY AND ST CLAIR AS FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS BEING REPORTED. RAIN WILL RETURN TO ENTIRE RGN BY MRNG AS UPR LOW MOVES INTO W MO. CURRENT FCSTS STILL LOOK GOOD. BROWNING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | St. Clair | 45 min |
| May 17, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Benton, Hickory | 51 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
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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.