Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 256, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1995, 3:46 PM CDT for Lafayette County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 1995, 3:46 PM CDT (20:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lafayette County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 160 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 212046 RRA SVRMCI MOC107-212130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 346 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...LAFAYETTE COUNTY AYT 344 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR LEXINGTON MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE NEAR HIGGINSVILLE AND PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND HAIL IN EXCESS OF 1 INCH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER 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 21, 3:39 PM CDT, 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 3:39 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 335 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 1995 NOT MUCH TIME TO LOOK AT THINGS WITH ISOLD SVR AND NOWCAST PROGRAM. WILL BE DFCLT TIMING WK FEATURES EMBDD IN ZONAL FLOW PAT NEXT CPL OF DAYS. TSTMS FM NE KS THRU CNTRL MO DVLPD IN RESP TO PRONOUNCED DRYING ASSOCD WITH APCHG ERN KS SHRTWV AS IT RCHD OLD FNTL BNDRY AND RGN OF ENHNCD MSTR CNVGNC. BNDRY HAS LFTD NWD AS A WRM FNT AND IS NR A STJ TO TO JUST NE OF MKC TO N OF COU LN. AMS IS VERY UNSTBL WITH LIS OF MINUS 8 AND CAPES IN EXCESS OF 3000 J/KG. ACTVTY WILL CONT IN GENL AREA WITH A NWD DRFT THRU SUNSET. BUT ONCE SUN GOES DN ACTVTY SHUD DIE OFF FAIRLY QUICKLY. S OF BNDRY ONLY ISOLD TSTMS THIS EVE. TSTMS ALG BNDRY MAY CONT TO BRIEFLY EXCEED SVR LIMITS TILL SUNSET. WV IMAGERY SHOWS SHRTWV RDGG MOVG IN BHND ERN KS SHRTWV SO AFTER SUNSET THREAT OF STORMS DROPS OFF QUICKLY TILL SUNRISE SAT. WILL BREAK UP FIRST PD TO REFLECT THIS. OTRW WARM AND HUMID TNGT. SAT TRICKY AS CNVTN NOW DVLPG OVR THE CNTRL HI PLAINS MY GET HERE BY MRNG. EITHER DYING MCS OR WRMG TEMPS ALOFT COULD CAP AMS TILL EVE HRS AND WAIT FOR NRN PLAINS CDFNT TO APCH. SO FAVOR HIER POPS FOR SAT NGT. MCI 70/90 33 JULY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 1:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 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, 2 hours 37 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, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 48 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.