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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 16, 1995Henry County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1995, 12:27 PM CDT for Henry County, Missouri. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 16, 1995, 12:27 PM CDT (17:27 UTC)
Expired
Apr 16, 1995, 1:21 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Henry County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:30 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

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 165 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1995-04-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 686 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1995-04-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 202 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
686 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
202 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
241 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 161729
SVRMCI
MOC083-161830-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO
1227 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...HENRY COUNTY
 
AT 1227 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES
WEST OF CLINTON. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL
LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL ONE INCH IN DIAMETER OR LARGER AND WINDS TO 60 MPH.
PERSONS IN CLINTON AND DEEPWATER ARE IN THE DIRECT PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE \WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY 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 16, 9:20 AM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 9:20 AM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
925 AM CDT SUN APR 16 1995

BUSY AM AT THE WX OFFICE...SVR TSTMS MVNG THRU METRO AREA ATTM. MORE
TSTMS PSBL THIS PM OVER SRN MO IF CAP ERODES. NOT MUCH POS AREA ON
SNDGS EVEN IF LIFTED FROM 900 MB BUT CELLS STILL PRODUCING HAIL AND 75
MPH WNDS. CRNT FCST LKS OK. WILL FINE TUNE TEMPS IN AREAS OF CLDS AND
PCPN. WATER VAPOR LOOP CONTINUES TO SHW LOTS OF MOISTURE <STREAMING INTO
THIS SYSTEM SO IN ADDITION TO SVR TSTMS TDY AND TNT...FLOODING MAY ADD
TO OUR MISSERIES. NO MAJOR FCST CHANGES UNTIL NEW GUIDANCE.

BODNER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 16, 9:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass53 min
Apr 16, 10:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson60 min
Apr 16, 11:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis68 min
Apr 16, 11:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBates, Cass62 min
Apr 16, 11:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper64 min
Apr 16, 1:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper25 min
Apr 16, 1:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBenton62 min
Apr 16, 1:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMorgan61 min
Apr 16, 2:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMiller61 min
Apr 16, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay, Jackson61 min
Apr 16, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClinton, Ray40 min
Apr 16, 6:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCaldwell58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 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.