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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 8, 1995Cass County, Jackson County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 2:39 AM CDT for Cass County, Jackson County, Missouri. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 1995, 2:39 AM CDT (07:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 1995, 3:30 AM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cass County, MO, Jackson County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:41 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 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 113 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3417 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1305 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.8

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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 Jun 7, 7:53 PM CDT, 6 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 7:53 PM CDT, 6 hours 46 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
753 PM CDT WED JUN 7 1995

AND SO IT BEGINS...RED WATCH JUST ISSUED FOR POINTS S AND W OF METRO.
CELLS GOING UP 15ENE EMPORIA AND WITH SUCH A PRIMED ATMOS...SVR A
GOOD BET.  WND PROFILE NOT THE GREATEST...BUT SUCH HIGH INSTAB AND
CAPE VALUES MAKE TUBES PSBL AS WELL AS VRY LARGE HAIL.  CRNT MOVNT
IS ABT 240/250 DEG WHICH MAY GET SOME OF IT INTO SW PARTS OF METRO IN
SPITE OF NON-INCLUSION IN WATCH.  THIS LIKELY THE BEGINNINGS OF A MCS
WHICH WILL TREK ESE ALNG H8/H3 THKNS.  THEN WILL ALSO HAVE TO WATCH
"REAL" CDFNT ACRS NRN IA/NEB.  WHEN THAT PLOWS INTO THE JUCIY AIR...
MORE ACTION LIKELY.  IF THE RAIN GETS ACRS METRO...AM CONCERNED 70
NOT COOL ENOUGH FOR LOWS.  IF THERE IS TIME ARND 930 PM...WILL MAKE
A DECISION THEN ON WHETHER TO LWR A SMIDGE.

WELVAERT

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 7, 11:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
1157 PM CDT WED JUN 7 1995

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 570 CANCELLED...

THE TORNADO WATCH...NUMBER 570...WHICH INCLUDED COUNTIES IN EAST
CENTRAL KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE CLEARED FROM THE WATCH...MIAMI AND LINN IN
KANSAS...AND BATES...HENRY...AND ST CLAIR IN MISSOURI.

WELVAERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 2:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	52 min
Jun 8, 3:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay	42 min
Jun 8, 3:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates	37 min
Jun 8, 3:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	St. Clair	44 min
Jun 8, 3:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Ray	53 min
Jun 8, 3:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis, Saline	49 min
Jun 8, 4:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry, Johnson	41 min
Jun 8, 4:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Benton	65 min
Jun 8, 4:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Morgan	49 min
Jun 8, 5:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Maries, Pulaski	20 min
Jun 8, 12:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Camden	61 min
Jun 8, 1:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Miller, Pulaski	40 min
Jun 8, 2:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Miami	65 min
Jun 8, 2:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Wyandotte	43 min
Jun 8, 2:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Doniphan	52 min
Jun 8, 3:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn	42 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.