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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 230, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 5, 1995Johnson County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1995, 7:17 PM CDT for Johnson County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 1995, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Johnson County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 238 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 1995-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1107 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 1995-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 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
1107 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1363 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 5, 3:14 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 3:14 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 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

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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.