Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 7:47 PM CDT for Linn County, Sullivan County, Missouri. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 7:47 PM CDT (00:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Linn County, MO, Sullivan County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 809 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 873 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 4 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 3:01 PM CDT, 4 hours 46 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
Local storm report, Jul 4, 5:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 532 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 ...STORM REPORTS FOR THE AFTERNOON OF JULY 4TH... TIME/DATE LOCATION/COUNTY STATE EVENT/REMARKS 1535 CDT 5S AND 4W OF HIGHLAND KS TORNADO SPOTTED ON THE 07/04/95 DONIPHAN GROUND. SOME DAMAGE REPORTED. 1555 CDT NORTHWEST OF HIGHLAND KS NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY 07/04/95 DONIPHAN SHERIFF. 1600 CDT ARRINGTON KS DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED. 07/04/95 ATCHISON 1630 CDT MUSCOTAH KS DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED. 07/04/95 ATCHISON 1700 CDT LANCASTER KS DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED. 07/04/95 ATCHISON WELVAERT
Local storm report, Jul 4, 5:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 532 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 ...STORM REPORTS FOR THE AFTERNOON OF JULY 4TH... TIME/DATE LOCATION/COUNTY STATE EVENT/REMARKS 1535 CDT 5S AND 4W OF HIGHLAND KS TORNADO SPOTTED ON THE 07/04/95 DONIPHAN GROUND. SOME DAMAGE REPORTED. 1555 CDT NORTHWEST OF HIGHLAND KS NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY 07/04/95 DONIPHAN SHERIFF. 1600 CDT ARRINGTON KS DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED. 07/04/95 ATCHISON 1630 CDT MUSCOTAH KS DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED. 07/04/95 ATCHISON 1700 CDT LANCASTER KS DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED. 07/04/95 ATCHISON WELVAERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy, Livingston | 50 min |
| Jul 4, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | St. Clair | 51 min |
| Jul 5, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Pettis | 54 min |
| Jul 4, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 42 min |
| Jul 4, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 43 min |
| Jul 4, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 37 min |
| Jul 4, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 26 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 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.