Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1995, 11:34 PM CDT for Atchison County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 1995, 11:34 PM CDT (04:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1995, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Atchison County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 2551 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 230434 RRA SVRMCI KSC005-230530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 1134 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST KANSAS ...ATCHISON KS COUNTY AT 1134 PM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR ARRINGTON AND CUMMINGS MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY ALONG HIGHWAY 116 SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR UP TO GOLFBALL-SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH. ANOTHER STRONG STORM JUST SOUTHWEST OF ATCHISON MAY ALSO INTENSIFY TO SEVERE LEVELS. 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 22, 3:36 PM CDT, 7 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 3:36 PM CDT, 7 hours 58 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
Local storm report, Jul 22, 10:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 1012 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 1995 ...STORM REPORTS FOR THE EVENING OF JULY 22ND... TIME/DATE LOCATION/COUNTY STATE EVENT/REMARKS 1747 CDT KIRKSVILLE MO 0.75 INCH HAIL 07/22/95 ADAIR 1800 CDT KIRKSVILLE MO 1.75 INCH HAIL 07/22/95 ADAIR 1830 CDT KIRKSVILLE MO 0.75 INCH HAIL 07/22/95 ADAIR BEUSTERIEN
Local storm report, Jul 22, 10:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 1012 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 1995 ...STORM REPORTS FOR THE EVENING OF JULY 22ND... TIME/DATE LOCATION/COUNTY STATE EVENT/REMARKS 1747 CDT KIRKSVILLE MO 0.75 INCH HAIL 07/22/95 ADAIR 1800 CDT KIRKSVILLE MO 1.75 INCH HAIL 07/22/95 ADAIR 1830 CDT KIRKSVILLE MO 0.75 INCH HAIL 07/22/95 ADAIR BEUSTERIEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 55 min |
| Jul 23, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 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.