Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1995, 6:11 PM CDT for Andrew County, Nodaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1995, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Andrew County, MO, Nodaway County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1463 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1208 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 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 152310 RRA SVRMCI MOC003-147-160000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 611 PM CDT SAT JUL 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI ...ANDREW COUNTY...NODAWAY COUNTY AT 605 PM...RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF BOLCKOW. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL AFFECT PEOPLE IN BOLCKOW AND BERNARD. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED TREE DAMAGE IN THE MOUND CITY AREA. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. PB
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 15, 3:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 3:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 310 PM CDT SAT JUL 15 1995 TRICKY FCST NEXT 24 HRS WITH SUBTLE DIFFERENCES IN THE MODELS... SFC LO JUST E OF OMA AT 19Z WITH TRAILING CD FNT ALG LNK CNK LN WHILE WEAK DRY LN APPRS TO EXTD FM NEAR SLN TO ICT. 88-D LIGHTING UP ATTM OVR ERN KS AHD OF THESE TWO FEATURES. BIG FCST PROBLEM NEXT 24 HRS IS TIMING OF FNT AND TSTMS INTO CWA AND WHEN TO END AND DRY OUT ON SUN. ETA/AVN CYCLONICALLY SHARPEN UP UPR TROF OVR NRN PLNS MORE AS OPPOSED TO FLATTER NGM. AS RESULT ETA/AVN BRING FNT THRU CWA FASTER AND DRY IT OUT FASTER ON SUN. NGM ALSO WETTER IN QPF FCST OVER ERN KS EXTNG INTO CWA. AS FAR AS SYNOPTIC SCALE FEATURES GO...WILL LEAN MORE TWRDS ETA/AVN SOLN. STLT LOOP SHWS STRONGEST CNVCTN DVLPG OVR MN AND WI AHD OF VORT AND IN RT ENTRANCE RGN OF UPR JET AND LIFTING NEWRD KEEPING FOCUS OF HVY PCPN ALNG SFC BNDRY FTHR N ATTM. THIS MAY ALSO BE A PRELUDE TO A STEEPER TROF OVR NRN PLNS THEREBY ALLOWING ATM TO DRY OUT IN 36 HRS. AS FAR AS FCST GOES...SHWRS/TSTMS LIKELY TNT...60 PERCENT POPS OVR CWA... THEN PTLY CLDY 30 PERCENT POP FOR SHWRS ON SUN. FWC/FAN NUMBERS SEEM ON THE RIGHT TRACK. ON THE MESO LVL...CD FNT SHOULD ENTER NW MO THIS EVNG WITH STG TSTMS PSBL AHD OF FNT DURING NXT SVRL HRS. BEST DESTABILIZATION TO N AND W BUT HVY R AND SMALL HAIL CAN NOT BE RULED OUT THIS EVNG. CONCERNED ABT STORMS WITH R+ OVR ERN KVS TRAINING NEWRD INTO NW CWA ALNG FNTL BNDRY AND 850-300 MB THICKNESS RDG AHD OF FNT. EVNG CREW WILL HAVE TO KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON FF GUIDANCE...FORTUNATELY IT'S RATHER HIGH ATTM DUE TO RECENT HOT SPELL. MCI 71/88 63 BODNER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 1:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before
MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067- KSZ025-057-060-102>105-161200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 100 PM CDT SAT JUL 15 1995 FORECAST...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLLE THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY NORTH AND WEST OF A KANSAS CITY CHILICOTHE KIRKSVILLE LINE. THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. THUNDERSTORMS ARE MORE LIKLEY TONIGHT AND SUNDAY OVER THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA. THESE STORMS ARE ALSO NOT LIKLEY TO BECOME SEVERE BUT VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED BUT LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT TEAMS SHOULD MONITOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS EVENING AND LATER TONIGHT. DISCUSSION...LOW PRESSURE NEAR OMAHA WITH A TRAILING COLD FRONT INTO NORTH CENTRAL KS WILL SLOWLY MOVE EAST TONIGHT. THE FRONT IS LIKELY TO MOVE THROUGH THE METRO AREA EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. THERE MAY BE A FEW THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON IN ADVANCE OF THE FRONT BUT STORMS ARE MORE LIKELY TONIGHT AS THE FRONT GETS CLOSER. BEHIND THE FRONT TEMPERATURES WILL BE CLOSER TO SEASONAL NORMALS. THE HEAVIEST RAINS THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING ARE MOST LIKELY OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. BODNER
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 1:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before
MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067- KSZ025-057-060-102>105-161200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 100 PM CDT SAT JUL 15 1995 FORECAST...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLLE THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY NORTH AND WEST OF A KANSAS CITY CHILICOTHE KIRKSVILLE LINE. THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. THUNDERSTORMS ARE MORE LIKLEY TONIGHT AND SUNDAY OVER THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA. THESE STORMS ARE ALSO NOT LIKLEY TO BECOME SEVERE BUT VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED BUT LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT TEAMS SHOULD MONITOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS EVENING AND LATER TONIGHT. DISCUSSION...LOW PRESSURE NEAR OMAHA WITH A TRAILING COLD FRONT INTO NORTH CENTRAL KS WILL SLOWLY MOVE EAST TONIGHT. THE FRONT IS LIKELY TO MOVE THROUGH THE METRO AREA EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. THERE MAY BE A FEW THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON IN ADVANCE OF THE FRONT BUT STORMS ARE MORE LIKELY TONIGHT AS THE FRONT GETS CLOSER. BEHIND THE FRONT TEMPERATURES WILL BE CLOSER TO SEASONAL NORMALS. THE HEAVIEST RAINS THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING ARE MOST LIKELY OVER THE NORTHER&N HALF OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. BODNER
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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.