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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 19, 1995Johnson County, Wyandotte County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 1995, 10:08 PM CST for Johnson County, Wyandotte County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 19, 1995, 10:08 PM CST (04:08 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 1995, 10:55 PM CST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Johnson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 73 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: 78 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -174 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2530 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 289 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KMCI 200408 RRA
SVRMCI
KSC091-209-200455-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
1008 PM CST SUN MAR 19 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1055 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS

   ...JOHNSON KS
   ...WYANDOTTE
 
AT 1008 PM A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR BONNER
SPRINGS TO DE SOTO TO 5 MILES WEST OF EDGERTON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40
MPH. PEOPLE IN OLATHE...KANSAS CITY KS...OVERLAND PARK...AND SHAWNEE
AND SURROUNDING AREAS ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. DAMAGING WINDS
AND HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.


WSUS42KMKC/m

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 Mar 19, 8:32 PM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 8:32 PM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
830 PM CST SUN MAR 19 1995

TSTMS DVLPG ACRS KANSAS CITY METRO AS UVM AIDS IN DESTABILIZATION OF
AMS AND WAA GENERATES LIFT. STGR CONVCTN W OF MHK CONTS TO TREK EWD AND BELIEVE
CURNT FCST REMAINS ON TRACK. SVR POTL CONTINUES DUE TO LO WBZ HGHTS AND STG LWR
TROP WINDS WHICH CUD MIX DOWN IN STG DOWNDRAFTS.

HIGHER POPS SEEM IN ORDER BASED ON CURNT RADAR TRENDZS.

BUNTING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 19, 9:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	45 min
Mar 19, 9:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Doniphan	44 min
Mar 19, 10:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Miami	39 min

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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.