Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Kansas City, MO
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 2:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson | 51 min |
| 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, 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 |
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.