Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1995, 10:23 AM CDT for Lafayette County, Missouri. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1995, 10:23 AM CDT (15:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1995, 10:50 AM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lafayette County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 071522 RRA SVRMCI MOC107-071630- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 1023 AM CDT WED JUN 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...LAFAYETTE COUNTY AT 1020 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING NEAR HIGGINSVILLE IN LAYFAYETTE COUNTY. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE HAIL IN EXCESS OF 1 INCH...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND BRIEF HEAVY RA . THE STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL AFFECT CONCORDIA AND ALMA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT MAY CAUSE 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, 9:55 AM CDT, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 9:55 AM CDT, 28 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 955 AM CDT WED JUN 7 1995 DERECHO CONTINUES ITS TREK SE ACROSS FCST AREA. SHOULD BE INTO ERN PART OF FCST AREA BY MIDDAY AND EAST OF REGION BY EARLY AFTERNOON. FCST PROBLEM FOR THIS AFTN AND TONIGHT IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY THAT THIS CONVECTION LEAVES BEHIND...AND WHERE WILL ACTUAL FRONT BE. CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE TRYING TO PUSH INTO NRN U.S. SHOULD HELP TO PUSH MAIN FRONT INTO NRN MO AND NE KS TO LOW AROUND SC KS THIS EVENING. EXPECT CONVECTION TO REINITIATE IN KS AS LOW LEVEL FLOW BACKS AND COVERGENC INCREASES IN RESPONSE TO NEXT IMPULSE COMING OUT OF SOUTHWEST. EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE THROUGH NRN HALF OF MO TONIGHT. TEMPS TODAY WILL BE TRICKY WITH THUNDERSTORM OUTFLOW. SHOULD HAVE SUNSHINE RETURN IN WRN MO ONCE STORMS PASS...SO PROBABLY BEST TO JUST SHAVE OFF A FEW DEGREES FROM CURRENT FCST TEMPS. PC
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 5:58 AM CDT, 4 hours 25 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, 4 hours 23 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, 10:21 AM CDT, 2 minutes before
MOZ003>006-013>015-021-022-029-037-071625- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 1021 AM CDT WED JUN 7 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 562 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI.... ALL OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOW EAST OF A BETHANY TO KANSAS CITY LINE...SO THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THOSE COUNTIES WEST OF THIS LINE. THE WATCH CONTINUES FOR AREAS TO THE EAST. PC
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 10:22 AM CDT, 1 minute before
MOZ003>006-013>015-021-022-029-037-071625- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 1021 AM CDT WED JUN 7 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 562 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI.... ALL OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOW EAST OF A BETHANY TO KANSAS CITY LINE...SO THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THOSE COUNTIES WEST OF THIS LINE. THE WATCH CONTINUES FOR AREAS TO THE EAST. PC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 6:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt | 58 min |
| Jun 7, 6:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 62 min |
| Jun 7, 7:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew | 56 min |
| Jun 7, 7:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | DeKalb, Gentry | 42 min |
| Jun 7, 8:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess | 55 min |
| Jun 7, 8:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | DeKalb, Gentry | 31 min |
| Jun 7, 10:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton | 48 min |
| Jun 7, 10:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 69 min |
| Jun 7, 10:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard, Randolph | 56 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.