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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 27, 1995Carroll County, Lafayette County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1995, 6:39 PM CDT for Carroll County, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 1995, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Carroll County, MO, Lafayette County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:42 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 27, 7:20 PM CDTTornado F0Bates City -, MOA severe thunderstorm dropped up to golfball size hail on Bates City, and then went on to develop 2 weak tornadoes. The first tornado touched down south of Bates City at 1820 CST and was crossing Interstate 70 3 miles west of Odessa at 1831 CST. Only minor t

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 174 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1995-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 51 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1995-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 486 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
51 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
486 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
553 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 272340
SVRMCI
MOC033-107-280030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO
639 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...CARROLL COUNTY
 
IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...LAFAYETTE COUNTY
 
AT 639 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HIGGINSVILLE
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
 
PEOPLE IN HIGGINVIILLE ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM AND SHOULD EXPECT
HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND STRONG WINDS.
 
DIME SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT H HIGHWAY AND I-70 AT 637 PM.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
 
 
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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 27, 3:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 3:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
340 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995

ANY HEAVY RAINER WILL CAUSE PROBLEMS WITH ADDITIONAL 1/2 TO 3/4 INCHES
ACROSS THE AREA THIS MRNG WITH ISOLD 2+ AMTS IN CNTRL MO.  CONT TO HAVE
SCT HEVY RAIN CORE MOVE FROM SW MO INTO CNTRL TO N CNTRL MO ATTM.  MSTR
AXIS APPRS TO BE SHIFTG EAST AS NEW CELLS FORM AND MOVE SLIGHTLY EAST OF
PREVIOUS PATHS.  SATL SHOWS DRYLINE ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS BUT CU APPEARS
TO BE WELL CAPPED.  VERT MOTION ASSCTD WITH JET MAX APPARENT IN CIRRUS
PATCH MOVING NWD ACROSS W MO ATTM.

MDLS LIFT 850 MB CNVG AND JET MAX TO THE NORTH BY 00Z!  ONLY CHC FOR SVR
APPEARS TO BE FROM INSTBY AND POSSIBLYn LIFT FROM UPR JET.  SELS WATCH
HAS BEEN ISSUED.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 27, 1:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067-
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-280600-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
100 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995

THIS STATEMENT APPLIES TO THE EASTERN KANSAS COUNTIES OF
ATCHISON  DONIPHAN  JOHNSON  LEAVENWORTH  LINN  MIAMI  WYANDOTTE

AND THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN MISSOURI COUNTIES OF
ADAIR      CASS       GENTRY     JOHNSON     PETTIS    SCHUYLER
ANDREW     CHARITON   GRUNDY     LAFAYETTE   PLATTE    SULLIVAN
ATCHISON   CLAY       HARRISON   LINN        PUTNAM    WORTH
BATES      CLINTON    HENRY      LIVINGSTON  RANDOLPH
BUCHANAN   COOPER     HOLT       MACON       RAY
CALDWELL   DAVIESS    HOWARD     MERCER      ST CLAIR
CARROLL    DEKALB     JACKSON    NODAWAY     SALINE

...THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EARLY TONIGHT...

CLEARING SKIES AND A STRONG RETURN OF TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL WORK TO
DESTABILIZE THE AIRMASS OVER EASTERN KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI. A LOW
PRESSURE SYSTEM WITH A DRYLINE EXTENDING THROUGH CENTRAL KANSAS WILL
MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP ALONG THE DRYLINE THIS AFTERNOON AND SPREAD INTO WESTERN
MISSOURI LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE
WEATHER AT THIS TIME APPEARS TO BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
ISOLATED TORNADOES MAY ALSO BE POSSIBLE OVER NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE
REGION WHERE STRONGER WIND SHEAR WILL FAVOR ROTATING THUNDERSTORMS.

THERE IS ALSO AN ADDITIONAL THREAT OF CONTINUED FLOODING AND FLASH
FLOODING FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY
TONIGHT.

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Special weather statement, May 27, 1:01 PM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before
MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067-
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-280600-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
100 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995

THIS STATEMENT APPLIES TO THE EASTERN KANSAS COUNTIES OF
ATCHISON  DONIPHAN  JOHNSON  LEAVENWORTH  LINN  MIAMI  WYANDOTTE

AND THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN MISSOURI COUNTIES OF
ADAIR      CASS       GENTRY     JOHNSON     PETTIS    SCHUYLER
ANDREW     CHARITON   GRUNDY     LAFAYETTE   PLATTE    SULLIVAN
ATCHISON   CLAY       HARRISON   LINN        PUTNAM    WORTH
BATES      CLINTON    HENRY      LIVINGSTON  RANDOLPH
BUCHANAN   COOPER     HOLT       MACON       RAY
CALDWELL   DAVIESS    HOWARD     MERCER      ST CLAIR
CARROLL    DEKALB     JACKSON    NODAWAY     SALINE

...THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EARLY TONIGHT...

CLEARING SKIES AND A STRONG RETURN OF TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL WORK TO
DESTABILIZE THE AIRMASS OVER EASTERN KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI. A LOW
PRESSURE SYSTEM WITH A DRYLINE EXTENDING THROUGH CENTRAL KANSAS WILL
MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP ALONG THE DRYLINE THIS AFTERNOON AND SPREAD INTO WESTERN
MISSOURI LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE
WEATHER AT THIS TIME APPEARS TO BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
ISOLATED TORNADOES MAY ALSO BE POSSIBLE OVER NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE
REGION WHERE STRONGER WIND SHEAR WILL FAVOR ROTATING THUNDERSTORMS.

THERE IS ALSO AN ADDITIONAL THREAT OF CONTINUED FLOODING AND FLASH
FLOODING FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY
TONIGHT.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson50 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.