Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 271, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1995, 2:55 AM CDT for Harrison County, Missouri. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 1995, 2:55 AM CDT (07:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1995, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harrison County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 206 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 230755 RRA SVRMCI MOC081-230845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 255 AM CDT SUN JUL 23 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI ...HARRISON COUNTY AT 255 AM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING NEAR BETHANY MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. HAIL LARGER THAN ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED. 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 ROdOM 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 23, 2:55 AM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 2:55 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 255 AM CDT SUN JUL 23 1995 BUSY NITE WITH SVR TSTMS RUMBLING THRU METRO AREA AND CWA. TSTMS SHOULD HELP PULL CD FNT A LTL FTHR S AND E THIS AM SO BIG FCST QUESTION FOR TDY IS WHEN AND WHERE MAY TSTMS DVLP ALG VARIOUS OUTFLOW BNDRYS. AMS VRY UNSTBL EVEN BEHIND INITIAL SQUALL LINE. CD FNT AT 07Z STILL N OF TOP MCI LN AND MORE TSTMS FIRING AT 0730Z INVOF OF MCI. CRNT FCST WITH 30 PERCENT POPS FOR TDY STILL LKS GOOD. TSTMS SHOULD BE MORE OF HIT OR MISS VARIETY AFT H5 VORT MVS TO E LTR THIS AM. NEXT PROBLEM IS STG H5 SHRT WV OVR WRN UT LAST NITE. MODELS SIMILAR IN MVG SYS TO E. BEST DESTABILIAZTION NOT FCST OVR CWA UNTIL MON DURING THE DAY...SO DESPITE GOOD LO LVL CNVGNC WITH STNRY FNT OVR MO...BOTH NGM AND ETA MAY BE A LTL TOO FAR E WITH QPF BULLSEYE TNT. EVEN THOUGH MSTR IN PLACE...BEST ISENTROPIC LIFT AND THETA-E ADVT NOT UNTIL MON. WOULD LIKE TO UP POPS TO 40/50 PERCENT FOR TNT THEN TO 60 PERCENT FOR MON WITH BEST DYNAMICS AND THERMODYNAMICS. THIS NEXT SHRT WV IS THE STRONGEST IN THE TRAIN OF THE LAST SVRL DYS...SO ONCE AGN SVR WX SEEMS LIKELY FOR SUN NITE OVR OK AND KS AND ON MON FOR MO. FWC/FAN TEMP NUMBERS SEEM REASONABLE BUT PREFER WETTER FWC'S FOR TNT AND MON. MCI 87/69 35 BODNER
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 22, 10:12 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 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, 4 hours 40 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, 1:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Ray | 69 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
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.