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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 7, 1995Daviess County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1995, 8:20 AM CDT for Daviess County, Missouri. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1995, 8:20 AM CDT (13:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1995, 9:15 AM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Daviess County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 178 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 1995-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3297 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 1995-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 322 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3297 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
721 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
322 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
347 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
12.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 071319 RRA
SVRMCI
MOC061-071415-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO
820 AM CDT WED JUN 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
 
   ...DAVIESS COUNTY
 
AT 815 AM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED FROM KING CITY TO MAYSVILLE.
THE STORM WAS PRODUCING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MPH AND WILL AFFECT
WINSTON...PATTONSBURG AND GALLITAN BETWEEN 830 AND 845 AM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT MAY
CAUS&E FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS.  MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON
THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.
 
PB

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 Jun 7, 3:21 AM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 3:21 AM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
320 AM CDT WED JUN 7 1995

SHORT TERM CONCERN IS WITH CONVECTIVE SYSTEM OVER NEBR. CURRENT TRACK
WOULD KEEP IT NORTH OF THE NW CORNER OF MO...FITTING MORE OF THE ETA
THICKNESS PATTERN RATHER THAN THE NGMS. ALL MODELS KEEP BOUNDARIES
NORTH OF AREA TODAY AS RIDGING HOLDS ACROSS THE AREA AHEAD OF STRONG
LOW OVER GREAT BASIN. MODELS SIMILAR IN KEEPING UPPER LOW AROUND
SLC THRU 48 HRS...BUT DIVERGE ON SFC BOUNDARY POSITION. CONVECTION
ALONG BOUNDARY TONIGHT SHOULD HELP TO PUSH IT FURTHER SOUTH SO PREFER
ETA/AVN SOLUTION. ALONG WITH THE THREAT OF SVR...HEAVY RAINS WILL
ALSO BE A CONCERN IN NRN PORTIONS OF FCST AREA LATE TONIGHT AND ON
THURSDAY.

CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS NORTH TODAY LOOK DOUBTFUL AS WARMING AT H8 AND
H7 LEVELS SHOULD KEEP THE CAP IN PLACE. HIGH TEMPS IN WRKZFP LOOK FINE.
WITH DPTS STAYING UP...MAY NOT REACH 90 IN MANY PLACES...BUT WITH HIGH
HUMIDITIES...IT WILL FEEL THAT WARM.

MCI  86/69  14

PC

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 7, 5:58 AM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067-
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-071800-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
600 AM CDT WED JUN 7 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 SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING IN
THE NORTHWEST PART OF MISSOURI AND A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MOST OF NORTHERN MISSOURI TONIGHT...

A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE RAPIDLY EAST ACROSS THE EXTREME
NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS MORNING...TO THE NORTH OF
ST. JOSEPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WIND
GUSTS WITH A SLIGHT RISK OF WINDS REACHING SEVERE CRITERIA. THESE
STORMS WILL EXIT THE REGION BY LATE MORNING.

THERE WILL BE A CHANCE MORE THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP IN NORTHERN
MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON...BUT THE BETTER CHANCE WILL COME TONIGHT AS
A FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVES INTO NORTHERN MISSOURI. THIS BOUNDARY SHOULD
HELP SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WITH SEVERE STORMS
POSSIBLE. THE UNCERTAINTY IS IN WHERE EXACTLY THIS FRONT WILL BE
TONIGHT...BUT IT APPEARS AT THIS TIME...THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS
SHOULD BE NORTH OF A LINE FROM PAOLA KANSAS TO BOONVILLE MISSOURI.
HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY THIS MORNING IN THE EXTREME NORTH
AND IN THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE OUTLOOK AREA TONIGHT.

PC
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 6:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067-
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-071800-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
600 AM CDT WED JUN 7 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 SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING IN
THE NORTHWEST PART OF MISSOURI AND A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MOST OF NORTHERN MISSOURI TONIGHT...

A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE RAPIDLY EAST ACROSS THE EXTREME
NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS MORNING...TO THE NORTH OF
ST. JOSEPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WIND
GUSTS WITH A SLIGHT RISK OF WINDS REACHING SEVERE CRITERIA. THESE
STORMS WILL EXIT THE REGION BY LATE MORNING.

THERE WILL BE A CHANCE MORE THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP IN NORTHERN
MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON...BUT THE BETTER CHANCE WILL COME TONIGHT AS
A FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVES INTO NORTHERN MISSOURI. THIS BOUNDARY SHOULD
HELP SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WITH SEVERE STORMS
POSSIBLE. THE UNCERTAINTY IS IN WHERE EXACTLY THIS FRONT WILL BE
TONIGHT...BUT IT APPEARS AT THIS TIME...THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS
SHOULD BE NORTH OF A LINE FROM PAOLA KANSAS TO BOONVILLE MISSOURI.
HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY THIS MORNING IN THE EXTREME NORTH
AND IN THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE OUTLOOK AREA TONIGHT.

PC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 6:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison, Holt58 min
Jun 7, 6:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXNodaway62 min
Jun 7, 7:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew56 min
Jun 7, 7:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDeKalb, Gentry42 min
Jun 7, 8:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDeKalb, Gentry31 min
Jun 7, 10:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXChariton48 min
Jun 7, 10:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSaline69 min
Jun 7, 10:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLafayette27 min
Jun 7, 10:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHoward, Randolph56 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.