Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 11:03 PM CDT for Daviess County, Missouri. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1995, 11:03 PM CDT (04:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1995, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Daviess County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 2887 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1205 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 040402 RRA SVRMCI MOC061-040445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 1103 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI ...DAVIESS COUNTY AT 1100 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY RADAR JUST NORTH OF HAMILTON IN CALDWELL COUNTY AND MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE VERY CLOSE TO THE GALLATIN AREA BETWEEN 1115 AND 1145 PM. THREE QUARTER INCH HAIL IS POSSIBLE IN THE PATH OF THIS THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FR|OM 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. BODNER
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 Jul 3, 8:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 8:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
840 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995
THE INGREDIENTS ARE ALL THERE...BUT WILL THE CAP OVER ERN KS BE BROKEN?
ATM VERY UNSTBL OVR OK AND ERN KS ATTM. NEW SNDGS INDICATE CAPES IN
EXCESS OF 3000 J/KG OVR MUCH OF KS AND DELTA-T'S MUCH HIGHER AS WELL
DUE TO APCHG SHRT WV. ADAP DATA SHWS LI'S OF -10 TO -12 OVR ERN KS.
ATM HAS BEEN WEAKLY CAPPED LAST SVRL HRS AS INFLOW AND ERLY WNDS INTO
WRN KS TSTMS HAS WEAKENED THE LO LVL CNVGNC FIELD SOMEWHAT AND THERE HAS
BEEN NO SGFNT SYNOPTIC SCALE FORCING TO PRVD ANY LIFT ALG OK DRY LN. H7
MSTR ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO KEEPING TSTMS IN CHECK THRU THIS EVNG SO FAR.
BELIEVE THIS WILL CHANGE LTR TNT SHRT WV MVS OUT OF CO AND ACR KS...NEW
PROFILER AND UPR AIR INDICATING CYC FLW ADVANCING EWRD OVR N KS AND
DRIER AIR AT H7 MVNG OVR OK AND ERN KS. CRNT FCST LKS GOOD AND SEE NO
RSN TO MAKE CHNGS ATTM UNLESS WE WANT TO PLAY WITH POPS...ALTHOUGH
CAN'T SEE WHY POPS WOULD BE LWR ON TUE THAN TNT. BEST DYNAMICS FCST OVR
CWA TUE PM.
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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 9:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067- KSZ025-057-060-102>105-040400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 935 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995 ...THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA IS NOT IN THE TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 696... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 696 FOR EASTERN KANSAS DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY OF THE COUNTIES IN THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA OR ANY OF THE COUNTIES OF THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF EASTERN KANSAS.... LINN...MIAMI...ATCHISON AND DONIPHAN. ONCE AGAIN THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA IS NOT IN TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 969. BODNER
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 9:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067- KSZ025-057-060-102>105-040400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 935 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995 ...THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA IS NOT IN THE TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 696... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 696 FOR EASTERN KANSAS DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY OF THE COUNTIES IN THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA OR ANY OF THE COUNTIES OF THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF EASTERN KANSAFS.... LINN...MIAMI...ATCHISON AND DONIPHAN. ONCE AGAIN THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA IS NOT IN TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 969. BODNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 45 min |
| Jul 3, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell | 69 min |
| Jul 3, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay | 48 min |
| Jul 3, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Livingston | 69 min |
| Jul 3, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll | 51 min |
| Jul 3, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 12:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Linn | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry, Worth | 42 min |
| Jul 4, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 52 min |
| Jul 4, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 2:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan, Clinton, DeKalb | 59 min |
| Jul 4, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Daviess, Gentry, Harrison | 53 min |
| Jul 4, 2:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Gentry, Harrison | 4 hr |
| Jul 4, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair | 45 min |
| Jul 4, 3:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Adair | 4 hr |
| Jul 4, 4:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Ray | 46 min |
| Jul 4, 4:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson | 56 min |
| Jul 4, 4:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 4:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Lafayette | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 4:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis, Saline | 61 min |
| Jul 4, 4:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton | 61 min |
| Jul 4, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt | 60 min |
| Jul 4, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew | 63 min |
| Jul 4, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 39 min |
| Jul 4, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Linn | 36 min |
| Jul 4, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson | 59 min |
| Jul 4, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Randolph | 66 min |
| Jul 4, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Daviess | 61 min |
| Jul 4, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Randolph | 43 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.