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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 16, 1995Wyandotte County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1995-04-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1995-04-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 295 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.
 
 
 
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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 16, 8:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Miami53 min
Apr 16, 9:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLeavenworth42 min
Apr 16, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson58 min
Apr 16, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXWyandotte32 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.