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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 228, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 4, 1995Miami County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 10:04 PM CDT for Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 4, 1995, 10:04 PM CDT (03:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 1995, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Miami County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 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

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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, 8:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 8:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 4, 5:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 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, 4 hours 32 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, 8:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 4, 8:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 4, 9:56 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 4, 9:57 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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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
Jul 4, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy, Livingston	50 min
Jul 4, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn, Sullivan	58 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 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.