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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 8, 1995Platte County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1995, 9:57 PM CDT for Platte County, Missouri. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 8, 1995, 9:57 PM CDT (02:57 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 1995, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Platte County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 86 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: 1681 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1907 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 090258 RRA
SVRMCI
MOC165-090400-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO
957 PM CDT SAT APR 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
 
   ...PLATTE COUNTY
 
AT 955 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN
PLATTE COUNTY 2 MILES WEST OF DEARBORN. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED
GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL IN SOUTHERN BUCHANON COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST
NEAR 25 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
 
 
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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 Apr 8, 8:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 8:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
830 PM CDT SAT APR 8 1995

THUNDERSTORMS ROLLING INTO NW MO FROM NE KANSAS. WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR
NORTHERN MISSOURI AND SEVERAL WARNINGS OUT IN NW MO AND NE KANSAS.
LOOKS LIKE ALL PARAMETERS IN NORTHERN MISSOURI ARE RIPE FOR SEVERE AND THE
GOING FORECAST LOOKS OK.

GA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 8, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	46 min
Apr 8, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Holt	57 min
Apr 8, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan	43 min
Apr 8, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clinton, DeKalb	55 min
Apr 8, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan	55 min
Apr 8, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess	39 min
Apr 8, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clinton	66 min
Apr 8, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell	42 min
Apr 8, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Ray	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1995 Every 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.