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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 8, 1995Miller County, Pulaski County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 1:35 PM CDT for Miller County, Pulaski County, Missouri. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1995, 1:35 PM CDT (18:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1995, 2:15 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Miller County, MO, Pulaski County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 309 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

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, 10:24 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 10:24 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 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

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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, 12:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCamden61 min
Jun 8, 2:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Miami65 min
Jun 8, 2:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXWyandotte43 min
Jun 8, 2:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDoniphan52 min
Jun 8, 3:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLinn42 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.