Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 4:10 AM CDT for Benton County, Missouri. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1995, 4:10 AM CDT (09:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1995, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Benton County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:11 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 4:25 AM CDT | Tornado F0 | Warsaw, MO | Investigations by emergency management officials and law enforcement indicated that a tornado snapped off the tops of several trees and uprooted a few others as it passed through the town of Warsaw. The damage was spotty along the path indicating that the fun |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
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 8, 2:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 2:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 20 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, 4 hours 13 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, 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, 4:41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.