Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1995, 6:42 AM CDT for Adair County, Missouri. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1995, 6:42 AM CDT (11:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1995, 7:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Adair County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1688 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 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 081141 RRA SVRMCI MOC001-081230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 642 AM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI ...ADAIR COUNTY AT 640 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF KIRKSVILLE. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL PASS THROUGH KIRKSVILLE AND BRASHEAR BETWEEN 640 AND 710 AM. HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS TO 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE W2EATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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 8, 3:46 AM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 3:46 AM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 345 AM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995 NOT MUCH TIME TO DIG INTO MODEL RUNS AND GRIDDED DATA WITH SVR WX CONTG. PER COORD WITH STL WILL LV FFA GOING THRU MID MRNG. QSTNRY FNT FM CNTRL NEB THRU NE KS AND W CNTRL MO MAY HOLD IN PLACE FOR MUCH OF MRNG AS COOL/MOIST OUTFLOW FM CNTRL MO CNVTN SPREADS WWD. STG/ISOLD SVR TSTMS CONT FM BETHANY IN N CNTRL MO THRU BOONVILLE IN CNTRL MO AS 30KT SWLY H8 JET ADVCTS MDTLY UNSTBL AMS ACRS BNDRY. PRONOUNCED THKNS DIFLUENCE ACRS MO IMPLIES GOOD UVV WHICH IS AIDING ACTVTY. EVE NGM JUST COMING IN. QUICK LOOK SUGS FNTL BNDRY WILL SHFT NE THIS AFTN AND ALLOW HOT AIR OVR KS TO SPREAD INTO WRN MO. MCS OVR CNTRL SD ASSOCD WITH NEXT IMPL RIDING OVR TOP OF UPR RDG SHUD SHIFT SEWD PER H8/H7 THERMAL GRAD OR PERIPHERY OF CAP. QUESTION IS WHAT PTN OF FA WILL IT AFFECT. IF IT HOLDS TOGETHER BY THE TIME IT RCHS FA WRMFNT SHUD HV SHFTD FAR ENUF TO THE E TO SPARE FAR WRN MO. 88D SHOWS CPL OF TSTMS HV DVLPD OVR ERN PTNS OF KC METRO. WILL INCLUDE SCT TSTMS FOR THIS AREA THRU MID MRNG HRS. MAX TEMPS IN 90 TO 95 RANGE FOR FAR WRN MO WHILE CLDS/RAIN COOLED AIR HOLDS TEMPS DN OVR ERN PTN OF FA...SAY IN 80 TO 85 RANGE. SUG KEEPING LOW POPS IN FOR TNGT AS MAY GET ENUF DIURNAL COOLG TO WKN CAP FOR ISOLD TSTMS. MCI 92/71 43 JULY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 3:08 AM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
MOZ002>004-013-022-030-038-044-054-067-080910- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 309 AM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NODAWAY...WORTH...GENTRY... DE KALB...AND CALDWELL COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND RAY... LAFAYETTE...JOHNSON...HENRY...AND ST CLAIR COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI HAS BEEN CANCELLED. JULY
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 3:09 AM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
MOZ002>004-013-022-030-038-044-054-067-080910- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 309 AM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NODAWAY...WORTH...GENTRY... DE KALB...AND CALDWELL COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND RAY... LAFAYETTE...JOHNSON...HENRY...AND ST CLAIR COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI HAS BEEN CANCELLED. JULY
Local storm report, Jul 8, 5:35 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 535 AM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995 ...STORM REPORTS FOR THE EVENING/MORNING OF JULY 7TH/8TH... TIME/DATE LOCATION/COUNTY STATE EVENT/REMARKS 2235 CDT 8 N OF BETHANY MO ONE INCH DIAMETER HAIL. TIME 07/07/95 HARRISON ESTIMATED. 2250 CDT CHILLICOTHE MO DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 07/07/95 LIVINGSTON 2305 CDT NEAR BETHANY MO DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED. 07/07/95 HARRISON 2345 CDT CAINSVILLE MO ONE INCH HAIL. 07/07/95 HARRISON 0030 CDT CAINSVILLE MO TWO INCH DIAMETER HAIL. 07/08/95 HARRISON 0035 CDT 6 SW PRINCETON MO QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 07/08/95 MERCER 0257 CDT 15 NE TRENTON MO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL. 07/08/95 GRUNDY JULY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison | 46 min |
| Jul 7, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy, Livingston | 65 min |
| Jul 7, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison | 61 min |
| Jul 7, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess, Grundy, Livingston | 64 min |
| Jul 7, 11:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Grundy, Livingston | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Mercer | 30 min |
| Jul 8, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll | 39 min |
| Jul 8, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 35 min |
| Jul 8, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Grundy, Livingston | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison, Mercer | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Saline | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 12:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Mercer | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 12:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Saline | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Saline | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 1:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy, Linn, Livingston | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 1:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Maries, Miller | 116 min |
| Jul 8, 1:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Morgan | 116 min |
| Jul 8, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Maries, Miller, Morgan | 116 min |
| Jul 8, 1:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Mercer | 40 min |
| Jul 8, 2:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Camden, Pulaski | 119 min |
| Jul 8, 2:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Camden, Pulaski | 119 min |
| Jul 8, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy, Sullivan | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Saline | 51 min |
| Jul 8, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Randolph | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Benton, Morgan | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Maries | 45 min |
Nearby
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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.