Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 1995, 10:48 PM CST for Clay County, Missouri. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 1995, 10:48 PM CST (04:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 1995, 11:30 PM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 200450 RRA SVRMCI MOC047-200530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 1048 PM CST SUN MAR 19 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI ...CLAY COUNTY AT 1047 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR GLADSTONE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. HAIL IN EXCESS OF QUARTER SIZE IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. THE CITY OF LIBERTY IS IN THE DIRECT PATH OF THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.
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, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 8:32 PM CST, 2 hours 16 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, 35 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 20, 1:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Maries | 42 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.