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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 16, 1995Cooper County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1995, 1:00 PM CDT for Cooper County, Missouri. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 16, 1995, 1:00 PM CDT (18:00 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 1995, 1:25 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Cooper County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:00 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 233 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: 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 161800
SVRMCI
MOC053-161830-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO
100 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 CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...EASTERN COOPER COUNTY
 
AT 1257 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PRAIRIE HOME AND
MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN LONE
ELM AT 1249 PM. THIS STORM IS STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE
HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS TO 60 MPH ACROSS EASTERN COOPER COUNTY.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU &SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
 
 
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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, 9:20 AM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 9:20 AM CDT, 3 hours 40 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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 16, 1:00 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067-
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-170600-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
1258 PM 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

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF A
KANSAS CITY TO MOBERLY LINE UNTIL 3 PM...

CONDITIONS FAVOR THE POSSIBILITY OF RE-DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE
MAIN THREAT FROM THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. THE MAIN AREA TO BE AFFECTED WILL BE SOUTH OF A ST
JOSEPH TO KIRKSVILLE LINE.

THE NEXT ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR DURING THE
AFTERNOON HOURS ALONG A STATIONARY FRONT LOCATED FROM A LOW OVER
CENTRAL KANSAS TO NEAR ST. LOUIS.  SATELLITE DATA SHOWS SKIES CLEARING
OVER CENTRAL KANSAS.  THIS WILL ALLOW THE MOIST AND U*NSTABLE AIR TO
HEAT UP AND DESTABILIZE FURTHER...FAVORING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 16, 9:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	53 min
Apr 16, 10:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	60 min
Apr 16, 11:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis	68 min
Apr 16, 11:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass	62 min
Apr 16, 11:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper	64 min
Apr 16, 12:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry	54 min
Apr 16, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Benton	62 min
Apr 16, 1:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Morgan	61 min
Apr 16, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Miller	61 min
Apr 16, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson	61 min
Apr 16, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clinton, Ray	40 min
Apr 16, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell	58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1995 Every 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.