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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 9, 1995Maries County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 1995, 7:57 PM CDT for Maries County, Missouri. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 9, 1995, 7:57 PM CDT (00:57 UTC)
Expired
Apr 9, 1995, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Maries County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 217 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1995-04-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1785 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1995-04-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 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
1785 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KCOU 100057 RRA
SVRCOU
MOC125-100130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
757 PM CDT SUN APR 9 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...MARIES COUNTY
 
AT 754PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF ROLLA NEAR
DIXON. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES PER HOUR.
 
TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE VIENNA...VICHY...HAYDEN...AND
BELLE.
 
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 AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
REAUGH

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 Apr 9, 3:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 9, 3:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
300 PM CDT SUN APR 9 1995

AT 19Z VIS LOOP SHWS FNTL BNDRY WELL TO THE SOUTH OF A MCI COU STL
LINE. 1030 HI E OF LK WINNEPEG BLDG INTO UPPER PLNS AND GRT LAKES HAS
FILTERED SOME COLD AIR INTO NRN MO AND IT'S BEEN HVY ENOUGH TO PREVENT
ANY NORTHWARD MVMNT OF WARM AIR. MAIN SFC LO STILL ORGANIZING OVER SW
US THEREFORE NO REAL FORCING IN THE LOW LVLS TO BREAK CAP OVER CENT AND
SRN MO. LINE OF CU FORMED EARLIER THIS PM FROM LINN AND BATES COUNTIES
IN CWA SOUTHWARD TO JUST E OF CNU. SHWRS WERE INDICATED ON 88D SEVERAL
HRS AGO BUT NO DEVELOPMENT ATTM. STILL THINK THERE COULD BE SVR TSTMS
OVER SRN MO BUT CHCS APPEAR TO BE DWINDLING OVER CWA. ETA SEEMS LIKE
MODEL OF CHOICE AGAIN SINCE IT BEST HANDLED THE SHALLOW CD AIR OVER THE
PLAINS AND IT'S MVMNT OF SFC LOW FURTHER S AND E IN RESPONSE TO
INCREASED BAROCLINICITY OVER THE PLAINS. WOULD LIKE TO LOWER PO0PS FOR
TSTMS THIS EVNG OVER CWA BUT KEEP HIGHER POPS FOR STRATIFORM R AND
POSSIBLE TSTM LATE TNT AND MON. GUIDANCE TEMPS MAY BE A TAD TOO HIGH.

MCI  46/54 86

BODNER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 9, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMaries31 min
Apr 9, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMaries25 min
Apr 9, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson47 min
Apr 9, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBates44 min
Apr 9, 10:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHenry, Johnson54 min
Apr 9, 10:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay, Ray55 min
Apr 9, 11:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLafayette29 min
Apr 9, 11:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXGentry, Worth54 min
Apr 9, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson48 min
Apr 9, 11:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLafayette62 min
Apr 9, 11:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMorgan42 min
Apr 9, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBates, Henry61 min
Apr 9, 11:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXRay51 min
Apr 10, 12:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll56 min
Apr 10, 12:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLinn, Sullivan63 min
Apr 10, 12:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass40 min
Apr 10, 12:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHenry64 min
Apr 10, 12:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson, Ray54 min
Apr 10, 12:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLafayette51 min
Apr 10, 1:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll45 min
Apr 10, 1:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass28 min
Apr 10, 1:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass, Jackson45 min
Apr 10, 2:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLafayette38 min
Apr 10, 9:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew, Buchanan25 min
Apr 10, 9:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXGentry48 min
Apr 10, 9:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDeKalb41 min
Apr 10, 11:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHarrison43 min
Apr 10, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXRandolph35 min
Apr 10, 3:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMacon37 min
Apr 10, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCamden35 min
Apr 10, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMorgan43 min
Apr 10, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMiller35 min
Apr 10, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMiller53 min
Apr 10, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMaries, Pulaski59 min
Apr 10, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPulaski33 min
Apr 10, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMaries48 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.