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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 8, 1995Ray County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1995, 10:57 PM CDT for Ray County, Missouri. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 8, 1995, 10:57 PM CDT (03:57 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 1995, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Ray County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 148 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1681 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1907 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KMCI 090357 RRA
SVRMCI
MOC177-090445-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO
1057 PM CDT SAT APR 8 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
 
   ...RAY COUNTY
 
AT 1054 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
NORTHWEST RAY COUNTY FROM KNOXVILLE TO LAWSON. SHERIFF REPORTS 1 INCH
HAIL IN LAWSON AT 1052 PM. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NEAR 25 MILES AN HOUR.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM 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.
 
 
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 8, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	46 min
Apr 8, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Holt	57 min
Apr 8, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan	43 min
Apr 8, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clinton, DeKalb	55 min
Apr 8, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan	55 min
Apr 8, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess	39 min
Apr 8, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	33 min
Apr 8, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clinton	66 min
Apr 8, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1995 Every 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.