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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 19, 1995Miami County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 1995, 10:23 PM CST for Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 19, 1995, 10:23 PM CST (04:23 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 1995, 11:02 PM CST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Miami County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 85 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 200423 RRA
SVRMCI
KSC121-200510-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
1023 PM CST SUN MAR 19 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1110 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

   ...MIAMI
 
AT 1023 PM A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST EAST
OF EDGERTON TO 10 MILES WEST OF PAOLA MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 40
MPH. PEOPLE IN PAOLA ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM AND CAN EXPECT
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
 
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.

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 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 8:32 PM CST, 1 hour 51 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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 19, 10:13 PM CST, 10 minutes before

MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067-
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-200500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
1000PM CST SUN MAR 19 1995

...SEVERE  THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 3AM ...

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT ACROSS THE
LOCAL AREA.  RADAR INDICATED THE STRONGEST STORMS JUST TO THE NORTHG OF
THE METRO AREA...TO THE EAST OF ST JOSEPH MOVONG TOWARD ST JOSEPH.
SEVERAL REPORTS OF MARBLE SIZE HAIL HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM VARIOUS
PLACES AROUND THE METRO AREA.
AT 10PM  A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FRON NEAR KANSAS CITY KANSAS...
TO BONNER SPRINGS...EDGERTON AND OTTAWA KANSAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT
40 MILES AN HOUR.  ANY OF THESE STORMS CAN PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER.
STAY TUNED.

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, 10:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Wyandotte	47 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.