Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 1:43 AM CDT for Gentry County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 1:43 AM CDT (06:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gentry County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:43 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 040643 RRA SVRMCI MOC075-040730- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 143 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI ...GENTRY COUNTY AT 143 AM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR KING CITY AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. PEOPLE IN KING CITY AND STANBERRY CAN EXPECT GOLFBALL OR LARGER SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. OTHER STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS GENTRY COUNTY NEAR ALBANY AND DARLINGTON AND WERE ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN 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.
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, 5 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 8:40 PM CDT, 5 hours 3 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
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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 9:35 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 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, 4 hours 3 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, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess | 42 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, 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.