Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1995, 9:05 AM CDT for Wyandotte County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 1995, 9:05 AM CDT (14:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1995, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wyandotte County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 995 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 426 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 161407 SVRMCI KSC103-209-161500- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 905 AM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...SOUTHERN LEAVENWORTH COUNTY...WYANDOTTE COUNTY AT 905 AM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF TONGANOXIE TO 10 MILES WEST OF PAOLA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST 25 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH AND LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. PEOPLE IN LINWOOD...BONNER SPRINGS...AND SURROUNDING AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE APPROACH OF THESES STORMS. AT 905 AM 60 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED IN SOUTHWEST LEAVENWORTH COUNTY WEST OF LINWOOD. 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 Apr 16, 3:00 AM CDT, 6 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 3:00 AM CDT, 6 hours 5 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 300 AM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 STNRY FNT AT 07Z EXNTDS FM LOW NEAR DHT TO EMP TO UIN. OVER CWA FNT SOMEWHERE BET KC
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 5:58 AM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067- KSZ025-057-060-102>105-161200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 600 AM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 THIS STATEMENT APPLIES TO THE EASTERN KANSAS COUNTIES OF ATCHISON DONIPHAN JOHNSON LEAVENWORTH LINN MIAMI WYANDOTTE AND THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN MISSOURI COUNTIES OF ADAIR CASS GENTRY JOHNSON PETTIS SCHUYLER ANDREW CHARITON GRUNDY LAFAYETTE PLATTE SULLIVAN ATCHISON CLAY HARRISON LINN PUTNAM WORTH BATES CLINTON HENRY LIVINGSTON RANDOLPH BUCHANAN COOPER HOLT MACON RAY CALDWELL DAVIESS HOWARD MERCER ST CLAIR CARROLL DEKALB JACKSON NODAWAY SALINE ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TODAY ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA AND SOME MAY BECOME SEVERE... A STATIONARY FRONT EARLY THIS MORNING EXTENDED FROM THE TEXAS PANHANDLE NORTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHCENTRAL KANSAS THEN OVER THE OUTLOOK AREA BETWEEN KANSAS CITY METRO AND SEDALIA. NORTH OF THE FRONT...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED EARLY THIS MORNING OVER CENTRAL KANSAS AND THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EFFECT PARTS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA...INCLUDING KANSAS CITY METRO...BETWEEN 7 AM AND 9 AM. THERE IS THE POSIBILITY OF HAIL WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. SOUTH OF THE FRONT...THE AIR IS EVEN MORE UNSTABLE AND THERE IS THE POTENTIAL NOT ONLY FOR SEVERE THUNDERTORMS AND HAIL BUT ALSO TORNADOES LATER TODAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT LIKELY TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHERN SECTIONS OVER THE OUTLOOK AREA UNTIL THIS AFTERNOON AFTER SOME HEATING FROM THE SUN BREAKS THE LID ON TOP OF THE INSTABILITY. THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT...THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINS. A LOT OF GULF MOISTURE IS AVAILABLE WITH THIS SYSTEM SO LOCAL FLOODING LATER TONIGHT IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION. SPOTTERS ACTIVATION WILL MOST LIKELY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. BODNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 8:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 53 min |
| Apr 16, 9:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 42 min |
| Apr 16, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 58 min |
| Apr 16, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.