Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 3:26 PM CDT for Atchison County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 3:26 PM CDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Atchison County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -489 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 440 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 496 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 042024 RRA SVRMCI KSC005-042115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 326 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST KANSAS ...WESTERN ATCHISON KS COUNTY AT 325 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PART OF ATCHISON COUNTY NEAR ARRINGTON. HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH TOWARD MUSCOTAH AND EFFINGHAM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. WELVAERT
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, 3:01 PM CDT, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 3:01 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 300 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 ANOTHER ROUND LIKELY WITH TORNADO WATCH ALREADY IN EFFECT. CELLS OVR NE KS ALREADY EXIBITING SUPERCELL CHARACTERISTICS AND WATCHING CAREFULLY. HAVE GOOD RADAR SIGNATURES ON STORM CURRENTLY PRODUCING TORNADO NR HIAWATHA KS. SO FAR...ACTION HAS MOVED NNE AND STAYED AWAY FM MOST OF MO...BUT THIS WILL CHANGE. ADAP PARAMETERS VRY UNSTABLE WITH LI IN EXCESS OF -10...VIRTUALLY NO CAP AND AS MUCH CONVGNCE AS YOU WOULD EVER WANT. THINK IT IS VERY SAFE TO GO WAY ABV GUID POPS...AND ALSO LEAN CLOSER TO COOLER FAN ON TEMPS AS CNVCTN SHOULD ASSIST FNTL MOVMT. AMS ALSO PRETTY JUICY...AND THINK HEAVY RAINS A GOOD BET AS WELL. MAY WANT TO RECONSIDER A FFA FOR AREA AS THESE CELLS BECOME A COMPLEX. ALSO LEAN TWD COOLER TEMPS TMRW AS FNT FINALLY PUSHES THRU. ALSO SOME RELIEF FROM THE VRY MUGGY CONDS. MCI 62/78 84 WELVAERT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 1:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067- KSZ025-057-060-102>105-051200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 100 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 ...MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA...WITH A SLIGHT RISK ELSEWHERE... THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS AND MUCH OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN MISSOURI HAS RECOVERED NICELY FROM LAST NIGHT'S STORMS. A VERY MOIST AND VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS AGAIN IN PLACE ACROSS THE AREA AND IT APPEARS THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER. A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT LIES ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS...WITH ANOTHER LEFT-OVER BOUNDARY FROM PREVIOUS THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS UP TO KANSAS CITY TO TOPEKA. IN ADDITION...A VIGOROUS UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE OVERHEAD DURING THE AFTERNOON. THESE THINGS WILL ALL COME TOGETHER TO GENERATE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON...WITH THE ACTIVITY MOVING NORTHEAST AND SPREADING EASTWARD BY EVENING. THE GREATEST LIKELYHOOD FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL LIE GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ATCHISON KANSAS...TO KANSAS CITY...TO RICHMOND...TO BOONVILLE. THERE IS A MODERATE RISK IN THIS AREA. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY...AND MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...POSSIBLY A FEW TORNADOES. NORTH OF THAT LINE...THE RISK IS A LITTLE LESS...AND IT APPEARS THAT HAIL AND WIND WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. WITH ALL OF THE OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES PLANNED THIS AFTERNOON...AND ESPECIALLY WITH THE MANY FIREWORKS DISPLAYS TONIGHT...PERSONS ARE STONGLY URGED TO MONITOR THE VERY LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICALS SHOULD ALSO BE PREPARED IN CASE THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS IN YOUR AREA. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED IN SOME LOCATIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WELVAERT
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 1:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067- KSZ025-057-060-102>105-051200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 100 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 ...MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA...WITH A SLIGHT RISK ELSEWHERE... THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS AND MUCH OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN MISSOURI HAS RECOVERED NICELY FROM LAST NIGHT'S STORMS. A VERY MOIST AND VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS AGAIN IN PLACE ACROSS THE AREA AND IT APPEARS THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER. A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT LIES ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS...WITH ANOTHER LEFT-OVER BOUNDARY FROM PREVIOUS THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS UP TO KANSAS CITY TO TOPEKA. IN ADDITION...A VIGOROUS UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE OVERHEAD DURING THE AFTERNOON. THESE THINGS WILL ALL COME TOGETHER TO GENERATE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON...WITH THE ACTIVITY MOVING NORTHEAST AND SPREADING EASTWARD BY EVENING. THE GREATEST LIKELYHOOD FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL LIE GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ATCHISON KANSAS...TO KANSAS CITY...TO RICHMOND...TO BOONVILLE. THERE IS A MODERATE RISK IN THIS AREA. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY...AND MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...POSSIBLY A FEW TORNADOES. NORTH OF THAT LINE...THE RISK IS A LITTLE LESS...AND IT APPEARS THAT HAIL AND WIND WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. WITH ALL OF THE OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES PLANNED THIS AFTERNOON...AND ESPECIALLY WITH THE MANY FIREWORKS DISPLAYS TONIGHT...PERSONS ARE STONGLY URGED TO MONITOR THE VERY LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICALS SHOULD ALSO BE PREPARED IN CASE THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS IN YOUR AREA. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED IN SOME LOCATIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WELVAERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 52 min |
| Jul 4, 4:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 43 min |
| Jul 4, 4:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 37 min |
| Jul 4, 3:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 66 min |
| Jul 4, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 60 min |
| Jul 4, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 52 min |
| Jul 4, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 54 min |
| Jul 4, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1995Every 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.