Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1995, 9:59 PM CDT for Gentry County, Harrison County, Worth County, Missouri. It was in force for 46 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, 9:59 PM CDT (02:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1995, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gentry County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Worth County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 10:12 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Eagleville, MO | ,2114cst A weak tornado briefly touched down west of Eagleville, uprooting a large tree at the junction of Routes D and M. Eagleville,27,2125CST,0,0,0,0,5K,0,Tstm Wind Severe thunderstorms produced damaging winds which downed power lines in Eagleville. |
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 00:00Z, 3.0 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.
- 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
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, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 8:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 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
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 27, 9:43 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 59 min |
| May 27, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 45 min |
| May 27, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 50 min |
| May 27, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 68 min |
| May 27, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew | 49 min |
| May 27, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Carroll, Lafayette | 44 min |
| May 27, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry, Nodaway | 44 min |
| May 27, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson | 51 min |
| May 27, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 41 min |
| May 27, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry, Harrison | 36 min |
| May 27, 10:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Harrison | 32 min |
| May 27, 11:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Pulaski | 57 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.