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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 276, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 25, 1995Linn County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1995, 3:08 PM CDT for Linn County, Missouri. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 1995, 3:08 PM CDT (20:08 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1995, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Linn County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1995-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 106 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1995-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -43 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
106 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-231 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1425 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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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 25, 10:01 AM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 10:01 AM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 1:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067-
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-261200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
100 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 1995

...THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT ACROSS WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA AND A SLIGHT RISK
ACROSS EASTERN SECTIONS...

FORECAST...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS
AFTERNOON ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS AND MOVE INTO WESTERN MISSOURI LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE
WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY THREATS. THE STORMS WILL
MOVE INTO NORTHCENTRAL AND CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS EVENING. THE MODERATE
RISK OF SEVERE STORMS IS WEST OF A LINE FROM BETHANY TO SEDALIA.
ELSEWHERE...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS. SPOTTER GROUPS
SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR ACTIVATION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

DISCUSSION...A VERY UNSTABLE AIR MASS IS IN PLACE ACROSS THE AREA THIS
AFTERNOON. WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS KANSAS
THROUGH TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED IN CENTRAL KANSAS BY 1 PM
AND ADDITIONAL STORMS WILL FORM THROUGH 5 PM ALONG A TROUGH OF LOW
PRESSURE FROM SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA INTO EASTERN KANSAS. THE STORMS WILL
MOVE EAST AROUND 25 MPH AND ENTER EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS AND
NORTHWEST MISOURI AFTER 4 PM. MORE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP
ANYWHERE THIS AFTERNOOON AND EVENING AS TEMPERATURES WARM TO NEAR 90.
THESE ISOLATED STORMS ALSO HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE STRONG WINDS
...HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.

BUNTING
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 1:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067-
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-261200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
100 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 1995

...THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT ACROSS WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA AND A SLIGHT RISK
ACROSS EASTERN SECTIONS...

FORECAST...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS
AFTERNOON ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS AND MOVE INTO WESTERN MISSOURI LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE
WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY THREATS. THE STORMS WILL
MOVE INTO NORTHCENTRAL AND CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS EVENING. THE MODERATE
RISK OF SEVERE STORMS IS WEST OF A LINE FROM BETHANY TO SEDALIA.
ELSEWHERE...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS. SPOTTER GROUPS
SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR ACTIVATION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

DISCUSSION...A VERY UNSTABLE AIR MASS IS IN PLACE ACROSS THE AREA THIS
AFTERNOON. WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS KANSAS
THROUGH TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED IN CENTRAL KANSAS BY 1 PM
AND ADDITIONAL STORMS WILL FORM THROUGH 5 PM ALONG A TROUGH OF LOW
PRESSURE FROM SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA INTO EASTERN KANSAS. THE STORMS WILL
MOVE EAST AROUND 25 MPH AND ENTER EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS AND
NORTHWEST MISOURI AFTER 4 PM. MORE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP
ANYWHERE THIS AFTERNOOON AND EVENING AS TEMPERATURES WARM TO NEAR 90.
THESE ISOLATED STORMS ALSO HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE STRONG WINDS
...HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.

BUNTING

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison38 min
Jul 25, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBuchanan, Clinton47 min
Jul 25, 4:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAdair52 min
Jul 25, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClinton32 min
Jul 25, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBuchanan, Platte43 min
Jul 25, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCaldwell, Ray62 min
Jul 25, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClinton58 min
Jul 25, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew54 min
Jul 25, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDeKalb54 min
Jul 25, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSaline61 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.