Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 1995, 11:23 PM CDT for Johnson County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 9, 1995, 11:23 PM CDT (04:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 1995, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Johnson County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:23 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 428 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 531 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 100424 RRA SVRMCI KSC091-100530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 1123 PM CDT SUN APR 9 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 EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...JOHNSON COUNTY AT 1120 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST JOHNSON COUNTY KANSAS...NEAR EDGERTON. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE NEAR OLATHE. LARGE HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IS EXPECTED. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VER0Y HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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 Apr 9, 8:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 9, 8:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 845 PM CDT SUN APR 9 1995 FCST PROBLEM TNGT IS PTNL SVR FAR SRN PTN OF CWA AND RAIN/ELEVATED TSTMS OVR REST OF FA. WW 166 IN EFFECT FOR SRN PTN OF FA. BNDRY NRLY STNRY OVR SRN MO WHILE SFC LOW DEEPENING OVR TX PNHDL. PROFILERS AND EVE RAOBS SHOW CD AIR IS RATHER SHALLOW OVR MO N OF FNT. ISOLD ELEVATED CNVTN HAS FORMED OVR LINN CNTY/KS AND STGR OVR CNTRL MO AND JUST E OF HENRY CNTY. CELLS HV BEEN SLOW TO STRENGTHEN PBLY BECAUSE UPR DYNAMICS HV YET TO RCH MO. MO IS IN FVRBL UPR LVL DIFLUENT ZONE AND ADAP SHOWS BULLSEYE MSTR CNVGNC OVR SW MO. STILL...MAY HV TO WAIT AWHILE FOR BTR DYNAMICS TO ARRIVE BEFORE STGR STORMS DVLP AS CAP WAS STGR TODAY THAN YDA. WILL CONT TO WATCH FOR FTHR DVLPMT OF CNVTN OVR FAR SRN FA. ELSEWHERE DESPITE CD AIR BEING RATHER SHALLOW TEMPS ARE QUITE NIPPY ON BRISK ENE WIND. DONT THINK THEY WILL FALL MUCH FTHR. MAY ONLY SEE L- OR R- TNGT OVR REST OF FA AND WAIT UNTIL TMRW MRNG FOR ELEVATED TSTMS WHEN LEFT EXIT RGN OF UPR JET AND LEADING EDGE OF PVA ARRIVE. NGM TAKES SFC LOW TOO FAR W INTO CD AIR TMRW AND PREFER AVN/ETA AND THEY MAY EVEN BE A BIT TOO FAR W. AS ISENTR<OPIC LIFT INCRS AND FNT TRIES TO RETURN N COULD SEE SVR OVR SRN/ERN SXNS OF FA TMRW. JULY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn, Miami | 58 min |
| Apr 9, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 48 min |
| Apr 10, 9:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 25 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.