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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 19, 1995Doniphan County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 1995, 9:36 PM CST for Doniphan County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 19, 1995, 9:36 PM CST (03:36 UTC)
Expired
Mar 19, 1995, 10:20 PM CST
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Doniphan County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 00:00Z on 1995-03-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 78 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 00:00Z on 1995-03-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 171 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
78 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-174 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2530 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
289 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KMCI 200336 RRA
SVRMCI
KSC043-200420-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
936 PM CST SUN MAR 19 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1020 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEAST KANSAS

   ...DONIPHAN KS
 
AT 935 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NEAR HOLTON...OR 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TROY
MOVINGEAST-NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. PEOPLE IN PURCELL AND TROY ARE IN THE
PROJECTED PATH OF THIS STORM AND SHOULD EXPECT HAIL ONE INCH IN
DIAMETER OR LARGER AND DAMAGING WINDS.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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 Mar 19, 8:32 PM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 8:32 PM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
830 PM CST SUN MAR 19 1995

TSTMS DVLPG ACRS KANSAS CITY METRO AS UVM AIDS IN DESTABILIZATION OF
AMS AND WAA GENERATES LIFT. STGR CONVCTN W OF MHK CONTS TO TREK EWD AND BELIEVE
CURNT FCST REMAINS ON TRACK. SVR POTL CONTINUES DUE TO LO WBZ HGHTS AND STG LWR
TROP WINDS WHICH CUD MIX DOWN IN STG DOWNDRAFTS.

HIGHER POPS SEEM IN ORDER BASED ON CURNT RADAR TRENDZS.

BUNTING

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 19, 9:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison45 min
Mar 19, 10:08 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Wyandotte47 min
Mar 19, 10:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMiami39 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.