Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1995, 2:37 PM CDT for Miller County, Missouri. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 1995, 2:37 PM CDT (19:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1995, 3:38 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Miller County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 5 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 9:20 AM CDT, 5 hours 17 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, 1 hour 37 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.
Local storm report, Apr 16, 2:10 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
150 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995
...STORM REPORTS FOR APRIL 16TH...
TIME/DATE LOCATION/COUNTY STATE EVENT/REMARKS
0912 CDT EDGERTON KS 0.75 INCH HAIL REPORTED
04/16/95 JOHNSON BY SPOTTER
0915 CDT HILLSDALE KS 0.75 INCH HAIL AND TREES
04/16/95 MIAMI DOWN REPORTED BY SHERIFF
0942 CDT CLEVELAND MO 1.75 INCH HAIL REPORTED
04/16/95 CASS BY SHERIFF
1035 CDT HOLDEN MO 1.00 INCH HAIL REPORTED
04/16/95 JOHNSON BY SHERIFF
0915 CDT 4N OF LINWOOD KS BARN AND TRAILER DESTROYED
04/16/95 LEAVENWORTH TREES UPROOTED...REPORTED
BY EMERGENCY MANAGER
1152 CDT SEDELIA MO 1.75 INCH HAIL REPORTED
04/16/95 PETTIS BY SEDELIA PD
1130 CDT 1N DREXEL MO 0.75 INCH HAIL REPORTED BY
04/16/95 CASS SPOTTER
1130 CDT 1S DREXEL MO 0.75 INCH HAIL REPORTED BY
04/16/95 BATES SPOTTER
1251 CDT LONE ELM MO 1.75 INCH HAIL REPORTED BY
04/16/95 COOPER BOONVILLE PD
1245 CDT CLINTON MO TREES UPROOTED AND BROKEN
04/16/95 HENRY WINDOWS REPORTED BY SHERIFF
1305 CDT 5E OF CLINTON MO 0.88 INCH HAIL REPORTED BY
04/16/95 HENRY EMERGENCY MANAGER
BEUSTERIENThe 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, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 25 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, 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 |
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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.