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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 270, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 23, 1995Ray County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1995, 1:51 AM CDT for Ray County, Missouri. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 23, 1995, 1:51 AM CDT (06:51 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 1995, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Ray County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 230652 RRA
SVRMCI
MOC177-230800-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO
151 AM CDT SUN JUL 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
 
   ...RAY COUNTY
 
AT 151 AM...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
EXCELSIOR SPRINGS TO LIBERTY MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. LARGE HAIL
AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS LINE OF STORMS AS THEY
MOVE INTO THE CITIES OF RICHMOND...FLEMING AND SURROUNDINGS AREA.
 
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.

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, 10 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 3:36 PM CDT, 10 hours 15 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, 3 hours 39 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, 3 hours 36 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 22, 11:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan	53 min
Jul 23, 12:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Clinton	55 min
Jul 23, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	59 min
Jul 23, 1:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson	58 min
Jul 23, 1:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess, DeKalb	53 min
Jul 23, 1:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew	53 min
Jul 23, 2:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison	50 min
Jul 23, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Benton	41 min
Jul 23, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Camden, Morgan	45 min

Nearby

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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.