Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 4:59 AM CDT for Chariton County, Missouri. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 4:59 AM CDT (09:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chariton County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:58 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 237 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 040958 RRA SVRMCI MOC041-159-195-041100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 459 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...CHARITON COUNTY...PETTIS COUNTY...SALINE COUNTY AT 500 AM CDT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM CARROLLTON TO CONCORDIA TO KNOB NOBSTER AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. PEOPLE IN BRUNSWICK...MARSHALL...SWEET SPRINGS AND SEDALIA CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AN INCH OR LARGER IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH. 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 rAREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. 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 4, 3:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 3:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 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 AFT N 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.
| 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, 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, 4:15 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.