Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 255, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1995, 1:57 PM CDT for Buchanan County, Missouri. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 1995, 1:57 PM CDT (18:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 1995, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Buchanan County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 626 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 861 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 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 211855 RRA SVRMCI MOC021-165-211945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 157 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI ...BUCHANAN COUNTY...PLATTE COUNTY AT 155 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BEAN LAKE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL PASS JUST TO THE EAST OF ST JOSEPH. PEOPLE IN FAUCETT ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM AND CAN EXPECT WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND HAIL UP TO 1 INCH. 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.
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 21, 10:08 AM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 10:08 AM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 1000 AM CDT FRI JUL 21 1995 ZONAL FLOW PAT WITH WK RIPPLES MOVG THRU WILL MAKE TIMING OF ANY CNVTN QUITE DFCLT NEXT CPL OF DAYS. MODELS ALSO TYPICALLY CANNOT BE TRUSTED IN THIS TYPE OF FLOW PAT. LTST WV IMAGERY SHOWS PSBLY TWO VORT LOBES WTIH LTL EFFECT ON WX...YET. LEAD FEATURE IS DAMPENING OUT ACRS EXTRM ERN KS WITH ERYR RW- HVG FALLEN APART AN HR AGO. NEXT APRNT VORT LOBE OVR CNTRL KS ASSOCD WITH WITH DRY WEDGE. WILL HV TO WATCH LATTER FEATURE WITH ITS DRIER AIR ALOFT MOVG INTO RGN OF HIER LOW LVL MSTR. AT THE SFC WHAT IS LEFT OF YDAS QSTNRY BNDRY HAS MOVD LTL IN PAST 24 HRS AND IS NR A TOP-MCI-S OF SPI LN. GOOD CHC BNDRY WILL WASH OUT AS SLY BNDRY LYR FLOW IS EXPCD TO INCR. FOR NOW WILL HOLD ONTO DRY FCST BUT WILL KEEP A CLOSE EYE FOR AFTN DVLPMT...JUST CANT TRUST THOSE WK RIPPLES WITH A DSTBLZG AMS AND ANY SEMBLANCE OF A BNDRY IN THE AREA. TEMP WISE WILL BUMP MAX TO 90 LCLLY...WAS 88 AT MKC YDA...OTRW REST OF FA LOOKS FINE. JULY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 1:00 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067- KSZ025-057-060-102>105-221200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 100 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 1995 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF WESTERN MISSOURI AND EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS THROUGH TONIGHT... FORECAST...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP FROM EAST CENTRAL KANSAS EASTWARD INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BRIEFLY REACH SEVERE LEVELS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF A MARYVILLE PLATTSBURG TO MACON LINE. LATER TONIGHT THERE WILL ALSO BE A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN MISSOURI WEST OF A TRENTON TO OSCEOLA LINE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND AGAIN AFTER MIDNIGHT. DISCUSSION...AN OLD COLD FRONT LIES WEST TO EAST FROM NEAR TOPEKA THROUGH KANSAS CITY AND INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI NEAR COLUMBIA. WARM MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR HAS RETURNED TO WESTERN MISSOURI AND EASTERN KANSAS AND WILL HELP FORM THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THIS BOUNDARY. SOME OF STRONGER STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BRIEFLY BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. OTHERWISE...WEAK DISTURBANCES ALOFT WILL MOVE ACROSS KANSAS AND MISSOURI OVER THE NEXT TWO DAYS AND WILL ENCOUNTER A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON OVER WESTERN OR CENTRAL KANSAS. THEY WILL MOVE TO THE EAST AND COULD REACH WESTERN MISSOURI AFTER MIDNIGHT. JULY
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 1:09 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067- KSZ025-057-060-102>105-221200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 100 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 1995 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF WESTERN MISSOURI AND EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS THROUGH TONIGHT... FORECAST...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP FROM EAST CENTRAL KANSAS EASTWARD INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BRIEFLY REACH SEVERE LEVELS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF A MARYVILLE PLATTSBURG TO MACON LINE. LATER TONIGHT THERE WILL ALSO BE A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN MISSOURI WEST OF A TRENTON TO OSCEOLA LINE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND AGAIN AFTER MIDNIGHT. DISCUSSION...AN OLD COLD FRONT LIES WEST TO EAST FROM NEAR TOPEKA THROUGH KANSAS CITY AND INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI NEAR COLUMBIA. WARM MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR HAS RETURNED TO WESTERN MISSOURI AND EASTERN KANSAS AND WILL HELP FORM THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THIS BOUNDARY. SOME OF STRONGER STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BRIEFLY BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. OTHERWISE...WEAK DISTURBANCES ALOFT WILL MOVE ACROSS KANSAS AND MISSOURI OVER THE NEXT TWO DAYS AND WILL ENCOUNTER A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON OVER WESTERN OR CENTRAL KANSAS. THEY WILL MOVE TO THE EAST AND COULD REACH WESTERN MISSOURI AFTER MIDNIGHT. JULY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 45 min |
| Jul 21, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 44 min |
| Jul 21, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 50 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.