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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 260, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 22, 1995Adair County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1995, 5:35 PM CDT for Adair County, Missouri. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 22, 1995, 5:35 PM CDT (22:35 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 1995, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Adair County, MO

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 238 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 995 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 877 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 3:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 3:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
330 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 1995

THE JUICY AIR REMAINS IN PLACE...FCST QUESTION...TIMING AND LOCATION
OF STORM DEVELOPMENT. SATELLITE SHOWS CU FIELDS DEVELOPING WEST OF
MKC AND IN CENTRAL KS ATTM. FRONT HAS SLOWLY MOVED TO A NC KS...SE
NEBR AND SW IA LINE. MODELS APPEAR TOO FAST WITH THIS FRONT AT 00Z.
SATELLITE WV INDICATES DRYING AT UPPER LEVELS MOVING INTO ERN KS ATTM.
PROFILERS SHOW H5 WAVE ENTERING WRN NEBR WITH BETTER AGREEMENT WITH
SLOWER NGM. ADAP SHOWS CAP WEAKENING IN ERN KS SO MAY SEE SOME RAPID
DEVELOPMENT LATE AFTN/EARLY EVENING THERE WITH STORM OUTFLOW HELPING
THE FRONT ALONG TONIGHT. THUS TH
INK CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN
CURRENT FCST LOOKS GOOD.

WITH CHANCE OF RAIN...AND FRONT MOVING THROUGH MKC LATE TONIGHT...
LOW TEMPS SHOULD BE AT OR SLIGHTLY BELOW GUIDANCE LEVELS IN NW MO.

MCI  69/88   53

PC

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 1:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before

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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, 4:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Nodaway	65 min

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1995 Every 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.