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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 8, 1995Camden County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 12:44 PM CDT for Camden County, Missouri. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1995, 12:44 PM CDT (17:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1995, 1:45 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Camden County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:48 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 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 272 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 11 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 258 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-697 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
936 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
258 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
600 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCOU 081746 RRA
SVRCOU
MOC029-081845-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
1244 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...CAMDEN COUNTY
 
AT 1245 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
CAMDENTON. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL REACH
CAMDENTON BY 115 PM AND OSAGE BEACH AROUND 130 PM.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO RAN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
KENNEDY

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, 10:24 AM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 10:24 AM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
1020 AM CDT THU JUN 8 1995

EFFECTS OF LARGE BUBBLE HIGH FM ERY MRNG MCS HINDERING STRENGTH OF
INCOMING AREA OF TSTMS. HWVR KEAX 88D SHOWS STGR STORMS OVR SE KS INTO
LINN AND BATES CNTYS BEAR WATCHING AS THEY MOV INTO MSTR CNVGNC MAX OVR
W CNTRL MO. IMMEDIATE PTNL SVR/HVY RAIN THREAT WOULD BE FM LINN CNTY KS
TO HENRY CNTY AND SWD. LRG AREA OF MDT RAIN MOVG ACRS NW MO N OF A MKC
TO CHILLICOTHE LINE WITH .25 TO .75 INCH/HR RADAR ESTS.

AFTER ERN KS MCS MOVS THRU...WRN MO MAY BE ABLE TO RECOVER SOMEWHAT BUT
WILL DROP MAXES EVERYWHERE FOR ONGOING PCPN/RAIN-COOLED AMS.

JULY

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 8, 6:55 AM CDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
655 AM CDT THU JUN 8 1995

...STORM REPORT FOR THE EARLY MORNING OF JUNE 8...

TIME/DATE    LOCATION/COUNTY       STATE      EVENT/REMARKS

0505 CDT   FAYETTE                   MO   NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES
06/08/95   HOWARD                         DOWN

JULY

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, 3:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis, Saline49 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, 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.