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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 8, 1995Wyandotte County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 2:47 AM CDT for Wyandotte County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1995, 2:47 AM CDT (07:47 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1995, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Wyandotte County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:51 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 77 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 1995-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3417 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 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
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

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

000 
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KSC209-080830-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO
247 AM CDT THU JUN 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...WYANDOTTE COUNTY
 
AT 245 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO
WYANDOTTE COUNTY KANSAS. THE STORMS ARE PRODUCING SEVERE WINDS UP TO 70
MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS KANSAS CITY KANSAS BY 3 AM.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
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, 7:53 PM CDT, 6 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 7:53 PM CDT, 6 hours 54 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 50 minutes before
MOZ053-054-067-KSZ057-060-080600-

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 2:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Miami65 min
Jun 8, 2:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDoniphan52 min
Jun 8, 3:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLinn42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 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.