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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 208, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 4, 1995Carroll County, Lafayette County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 4:50 AM CDT for Carroll County, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 4, 1995, 4:50 AM CDT (09:50 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 1995, 5:30 AM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Carroll County, MO, Lafayette County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 174 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 1995-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2887 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 1995-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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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 4, 3:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 3:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
330 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995

SEVERE WEATHER IN AREA...SO NOT MUCH TIME FOR ANALYSIS. THUNDERSTORM
COMPLEX SHOULD MOVE THROUGH THIS MORNING...THEN WILL LIKELY HAVE TO
WAIT FOR MAIN SHORT WAVE IN COLORADO TO MOVE OUR WAY LATE THIS AFTN
AND THIS EVENING. ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE LIKELY THIS EVENING WITH
NEXT SHORT WAVE.

SHOULD SEE SOME SUN BREAKING OUT THIS AFTN BEHIND THE MORNING STORMS...
SO TEMPS SHOULD REBOUND TO GUIDANCE LEVELS.

MCI 83/65  86

PC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson45 min
Jul 3, 10:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCaldwell69 min
Jul 3, 11:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDaviess42 min
Jul 3, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay48 min
Jul 3, 11:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLivingston69 min
Jul 3, 11:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll51 min
Jul 3, 11:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHarrison51 min
Jul 4, 12:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXChariton, Linn51 min
Jul 4, 12:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXGentry, Worth42 min
Jul 4, 1:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPlatte52 min
Jul 4, 1:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXGentry47 min
Jul 4, 2:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBuchanan, Clinton, DeKalb59 min
Jul 4, 2:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCaldwell, Daviess, Gentry, Harrison53 min
Jul 4, 2:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXGentry, Harrison4 hr
Jul 4, 3:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAdair45 min
Jul 4, 3:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXAdair4 hr
Jul 4, 4:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll, Ray46 min
Jul 4, 4:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass, Jackson56 min
Jul 4, 4:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson40 min
Jul 4, 4:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis, Saline61 min
Jul 4, 4:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXChariton61 min
Jul 4, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHolt60 min
Jul 4, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew63 min
Jul 4, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBuchanan40 min
Jul 4, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLinn39 min
Jul 4, 5:54 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXLinn36 min
Jul 4, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHoward49 min
Jul 4, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay, Jackson59 min
Jul 4, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXRandolph66 min
Jul 4, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCaldwell, Daviess61 min
Jul 4, 6:32 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXRandolph43 min
Jul 4, 4:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Miami43 min
Jul 4, 4:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLeavenworth, Wyandotte37 min
Jul 4, 3:09 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXDoniphan66 min
Jul 4, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison49 min
Jul 4, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison52 min
Jul 4, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMiami54 min
Jul 4, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson39 min

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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.