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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 8, 1995Pettis County, Saline County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 3:56 AM CDT for Pettis County, Saline County, Missouri. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1995, 3:56 AM CDT (08:56 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1995, 4:45 AM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Pettis County, MO, Saline County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:56 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 207 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 
TTAA00 KMCI 080855 RRA
SVRMCI
MOC159-195-080945-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO
356 AM CDT THU JUN 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...PETTIS COUNTY...SALINE COUNTY
 
AT 355 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
HIGGINSVILLE TO KNOB NOSTER TO LEETON IN SOUTHEAST JOHNSON COUNTY MO.
THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 TO 70 MPH.. AND
BRIEF HEAVY RAIN.
 
THE STORMS WILL AFFECT MARSHALL...SWEET SPRINGS AND SEDALIA.
 
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 8, 2:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 2:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
250 AM CDT THU JUN 8 1995

SEVERE WEATHER IN AREA PRECLUDES DISCUSSION. EXPECT THESE STORMS TO
BE PAST METRO AREA BY DAYBREAK...BUT MORE REDEVELOPING LATER TODAY
AS ENERGY CONTINUES TO BE EJECTED OUT OF WRN LOW.

MCI  81/68   56

PC

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 7, 11:57 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 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, 2:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass, Jackson51 min
Jun 8, 2:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBuchanan, Platte52 min
Jun 8, 3:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay42 min
Jun 8, 3:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBates37 min
Jun 8, 3:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSt. Clair44 min
Jun 8, 3:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll, Ray53 min
Jun 8, 4:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHenry, Johnson41 min
Jun 8, 4:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBenton65 min
Jun 8, 4:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMorgan49 min
Jun 8, 5:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMaries, Pulaski20 min
Jun 8, 12:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCamden61 min
Jun 8, 1:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMiller, Pulaski40 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.