Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1995, 6:51 PM CDT for Johnson County, Pettis County, Missouri. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1995, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1995, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Johnson County, MO, Pettis County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 917 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 052350 RRA SVRMCI MOC159-101-060045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 651 PM CDT WED JUL 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...NORTHERN PETTIS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...NORTHEASTERN JOHNSON COUNTY AT 646 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN NORTHEAST JOHNSON COUNTY NEAR ROUTE 23 ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF KNOB NOBSTER. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO THE COMMUNTIES OF HOUSTONIA AND HUGHSVILLE BETWEEN 700 AND 730 PM. PEOPLE IN NORTHEAST JOHNSON COUNTY AND NORTHERN PETTIS COUNTY CAN EXPECT GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL WITH THIS STORM. 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. 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 5, 3:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 3:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 314 PM CDT WED JUL 5 1995 BATCH OF RW/TRW ALONG WND SHIFT LINE FM VCNTY TOP TO STJ TO AROUND P35. THESE APPEAR TO BE DIURNALLY DRIVEN WITH COLD POOL ALFT AND SFC WARMING GIVING GOOD LAPSE RATES. WILL EXPECT THESE TO DIE AS SUNSET APCHS...AND PER COORD WITH STL WILL WORD FCST AS SUCH. AFTR THAT...LOOKS LIKE SKIES SHOULD CLR OUT AS DRIER AIR WORKS INTO AREA. WILL GO MAINLY CLR DRNG OVRNITE PD AND EXPECT LOWS TO APCH 60 IN OUTSKIRTS WITH TEMPS A LITTLE WARMER IN THE HEAT ISLAND OF MKC. NICE DAY ON TAP WITH ONLY A FEW CLDS IF THAT. LOOKS LIKE RAFS A BIT QUICK WITH THE WARM-UP...BUT FAN AGAIN SEEMS TO HAVE COOL BIAS. WILL BLEND. SLOW BUT STDY WARMING TREND ON TAP INTO THE WKND AS RIDGE BUILDS IN. MCI 60/85 10 WELVAERT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 1:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067- KSZ025-057-060-102>105-061100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 100 PM CDT WED JUL 5 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH THE BEST CHANCE MAINLY ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI. HOWEVER...THERE IS ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE THAT ANY OF THESE WILL REACH SEVERE LEVELS...AND IN FACT MOST WON'T EVEN COME CLOSE. A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE IS WORKING ITS WAY ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON...AND SHOULD PASS INTO EASTERN MISSOURI BY TONIGHT. WHILE THE ATMOSPHERE IS MUCH LESS MOIST THAN YESTERDAY...THERE IS STILL A SMALL AMOUNT OF INSTABILITY. THIS INSTABILITY WILL BE FURTHER ENHANCED AS SURFACE TEMPERATURES WARM...AND TEMPERATURES ALOFT COOL BEHIND YESTERDAY'S MAIN STORM SYSTEM. THIS CONTRAST WILL ACT ALONG WITH THE TROUGH LINE TO GENERATE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON...WITH ALL THE RAIN GONE BY SUNSET. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED IN A FEW SPOTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. WELVAERT
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 1:02 PM CDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before
MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067- KSZ025-057-060-102>105-061100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 100 PM CDT WED JUL 5 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH THE BEST CHANCE MAINLY ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI. HOWEVER...THERE IS ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE THAT ANY OF THESE WILL REACH SEVERE LEVELS...AND IN FACT MOST WON'T EVEN COME CLOSE. A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE IS WORKING ITS WAY ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON...AND SHOULD PASS INTO EASTERN MISSOURI BY TONIGHT. WHILE THE ATMOSPHERE IS MUCH LESS MOIST THAN YESTERDAY...THERE IS STILL A SMALL AMOUNT OF INSTABILITY. THIS INSTABILITY WILL BE FURTHER ENHANCED AS SURFACE TEMPERATURES WARM...AND TEMPERATURES ALOFT COOL BEHIND YESTERDAY'S MAIN STORM SYSTEM. THIS CONTRAST WILL ACT ALONG WITH THE TROUGH LINE TO GENERATE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON...WITH ALL THE RAIN GONE BY SUNSET. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED IN A FEW SPOTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. 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, 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 |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.