Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 259, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1995, 4:25 AM CDT for Atchison County, Nodaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 1995, 4:25 AM CDT (09:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1995, 5:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Atchison County, MO, Nodaway County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 2611 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1488 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMCI 220925 RRA SVRMCI MOC005-147-221030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 425 AM CDT SAT JUL 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI ...ATCHISON COUNTY...NODAWAY COUNTY AT 420 AM...RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE ROCKPORT AREA AND ANOTHER ABOUT 10 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF BURLINGTON JUNCTION. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. RESIDENTS OF TARKIO AND BURLINGTON JUNCTION ARE ALL IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. ONE INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. MORE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND WILL MOVE THROUGH ATCHISON AND NODAWAY COUNTIES THROUGH 6 AM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. BODNER
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 22, 3:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 3:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 320 AM CDT SAT JUL 22 1995 CONTENDING WITH WEAK SHRT WVS MVNG THRU ZNL FLOW AGN TDY. MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN MVMNT OF H5 SHRT WVS AND GRADUALLY LWR HGHTS INTO LONG WAVE MEAN TROF PSN OVR OH VLY. VORT MAX MVNG INTO SRN IA ATTM RUNNING INTO GOOD LO LVL WAA AHD OF WRM FNT THAT EXTDS FM LNK TO P35 TO UIN AT 07Z. TSTMS TRYING TO DVLP IN UNSTABLE AIR S OF FNT IN XTRM SE NE AND NE KS. WILL MENTION A FEW SHWRS/TSTMS LIKELY THIS AM AS SHRT WV MVS ACR IA/MO BORDER WITH TRAILING PVA. 07Z ADAP DATA INDICATES STG MSTR CNVGNC AND DEW PT POOLING JUST W OF CWA. NEXT FCST CONCERN IS TIMING OF SFC CD FNT. ETA IS ACTUALLY FASTER THAN NGM. AFTER DISCUSSION WITH STL...POPS WILL BE ADDED FOR THIS PM AS GRIDDED DATA FCSTS POCKET OF -6 TO -10 LI'S AND DELTA T'S UP TO NEAR 20 BY 00Z. WILL LEAVE POPS AT 50 FOR TNT SINCE TIMING OF FNT CLRG CWA STILL UP FOR GRABS. WITH ABUNDANT LO LVL MSTR POOLING AHD AND ALG CD FNT...SGFNT R+ PSBL OVR SECTIONS OF CWA. WITH DECENT DIRECTINAL SHEAR AND WET BULB ZERO BET 10K AND 12K...ISOLATED SVR PSBL LTR TDY AND THIS EVNG WITH STG WNDS AND HAIL. FWC NUMBERS SEEM A LTL HI TDY...SO WILL LEAN TWDS COOLER FAN. MCI 88/70 45 BODNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miller | 48 min |
| Jul 22, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair | 40 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.