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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 156, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 27, 1995Gentry County, Harrison County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1995, 9:24 PM CDT for Gentry County, Harrison County, Missouri. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 1995, 9:24 PM CDT (02:24 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1995, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Gentry County, MO, Harrison County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 189 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1273 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 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
1273 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1439 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
6.7

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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 27, 8:31 PM CDT, 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 8:31 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
830 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995

NO TIME FOR DISC WITH SVR. DRYLN OVR EXTRM ERN KS WITH LINES OF SVR
ACRS MUCH FA. CbONT TOR WW NMRS 483...485...486 AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR
ERN PTNS OF FA THRU TNGT. TMRW LOOKS MUCH MUCH QUIETER AND DRIER.

JULY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison59 min
May 27, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXLafayette45 min
May 27, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass50 min
May 27, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson68 min
May 27, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew49 min
May 27, 8:01 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXCarroll, Lafayette44 min
May 27, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXGentry, Nodaway44 min
May 27, 8:24 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXJohnson51 min
May 27, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLafayette41 min
May 27, 9:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXGentry, Harrison, Worth46 min
May 27, 10:07 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXHarrison32 min
May 27, 11:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXPulaski57 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.