Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 248, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1995, 4:09 PM CDT for Chariton County, Saline County, Missouri. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1995, 4:09 PM CDT (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chariton County, MO, Saline County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 911 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -477 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1726 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 082108 RRA SVRMCI MOC041-195-082200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 409 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...CHARITON COUNTY...SALINE COUNTY AT 405 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARSHALL AND 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF BRUNSWICK. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY PASS THROUGH THE CITIES OF BRUNSWICK AND MARSHALL BETWEEN 415 AND 430 PM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.<
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 PM CDT, 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 3:46 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 345 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995 SFC WRM FNT FROM AIZ TO NR MKC WITH LINE OF SHWRS AND TSTMS MOVG SE AT 40 MPH TOWARD CNTRL MO ALNG AND NE OF FNT. SHWRS PRIMARILY HIGH BASED ATTM WITH VIRGA AND GUSTY WINDS AS SHWRS PULSE. ADAP FOCUSES CNVGC ALONG THIS LINE IN VERY UNSTBL AMS. AFTER LINE MOVES THROUGH SKIES CLEAR. MDLS MOVE WINDSHFT LINE INTO NW MO BHND SHRTWV SWEEPING ACRS NW MO BY MIDNGT. MAY BE A ONE SHOT DEAL THIS EVE FOR RAINFALL POTNTL AND SVR WX. AMS OVR KC METRO WITH CLDNS AND SHOWERS AND STRONG CAP OVER KS WILL LIMIT WESTWARD EXTENT OF DVLPMNT. BROWNING
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 12:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067- KSZ025-057-060-102>105-091200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 100 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995 FORECAST...THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE ENTIRE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY. DISCUSSION...A WARM FRONT WAS LOCATED FROM SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA... NORTHEAST KANSAS AND INTO NORTHWEST AND CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOOON. HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS ALONG THIS FRONT ARE PROVIDING VERY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS. A DISTURBANCE ALOFT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ALONG THIS FRONT...HELPING TO BREAK A CAP OF WARM AIR WHICH IS IN PLACE OVER THE REGION. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE. THE WARM FRONT WILL MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST THIS EVENING...FOCUSING2 THE SEVERE THREAT OVER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE STATE. BROWNING
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 1:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067- KSZ025-057-060-102>105-091200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 100 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995 FORECAST...THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE ENTIRE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY. DISCUSSION...A WARM FRONT WAS LOCATED FROM SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA... NORTHEAST KANSAS AND INTO NORTHWEST AND CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOOON. HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS ALONG THIS FRONT ARE PROVIDING VERY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS. A DISTURBANCE ALOFT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ALONG THIS FRONT...HELPING TO BREAK A CAP OF WARM AIR WHICH IS IN PLACE OVER THE REGION. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE. THE WARM FRONT WILL MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST THIS EVENING...FOCUSING THE SEVERE THREAT OVER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE STATE. BROWNING
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, 6:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair | 48 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
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.