Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1995, 8:57 PM CDT for Howard County, Missouri. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 1995, 8:57 PM CDT (01:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1995, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Howard County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 611 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 170200 SVRMCI MOC089-170245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 857 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...HOWARD COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF NEW FRANKLIN AT 9PM CDT. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. HAIL UP TO ONE INCH DIAMETER AND STRONG WINDS ARE LIKELY AS THIS STORM MOVES THROUGH. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE JUST WEST OF FAYETTE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, 8:14 PM CDT, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 8:14 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 810 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 NOT MUCH TIME FOR DISC WITH SVR/FLASH FLOODING CONTG. SFC LOW OVR E CNTRL KS RUNNING NE ALG INVERTED SFC TROF WHICH EXTDS NE INTO SE IA. AMS AHD OF LOW IS IN WRM SECTOR AND IS VERY UNSTBL...SFC BASED LIS MINUS 6 TO MINUS 8 OVR W CNTRL MO. SVR STILL PSBL ALG AND E OF SFC BNDRY WHICH EXTDS FM BTN CNU/EMP THRU MKC METRO AND TO JUST W OF IRK. STORMS HV PRODUCED LOCALIZED FLOODING IN METRO AREA. NO CHGS PLANNED TO CURRENT FCST EXCEPT TO TWEAK FOR LOCATION OF ONGOING PCPN. COULD SEE A REPEAT MON MRNG AS WAA INCRS ALG/N OF FTNL BNDRY AND THEN AGAIN LT AFTN/EVE AS SQLN APCHS FM THE W(...FLASH FLOODING ALSO A WORRY. JULY
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 16, 4:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
447 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995
...ADDITIONAL STORM REPORTS FOR APRIL 16TH...
TIME/DATE LOCATION/COUNTY STATE EVENT/REMARKS
0905 CDT 7 W LINWOOD KS 60 MPH WIND REPORTED BY
LEAVENWORTH EMERGENCY MANAGER
1011 CDT HARRISONVILLE MO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
CASS
1024 CDT GUNN CITY j MO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
CASS
1152 CDT SEDALIA MO 65 MPH WIND REPORTED
PETTIS BY SEDALIA POLICE
.
JULYLocal storm report, Apr 16, 6:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
645PM CDT SUN APR
...STORM REPORTS FOR 6 1995
NAMELocal storm report, Apr 16, 7:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 735PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 ...STORM REPORTS FOR TIME/DATE LOCATION/COUNTY STATE EVENT/REMARKS 1818/16 KEARNEY/CLAY MO 3/4 INCH HAIL 1834/16 HOLTG NAME
Local storm report, Apr 16, 7:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 735PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 ...STORM REPORTS FOR TIME/DATE LOCATION/COUNTY STATE EVENT/REMARKS 1834/16 HOLT/CLAY MO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 1842/16 ELMIRA/RAY MO 1 IN DIAMETER HAIL 1845/16 8NE HOLT/CLINTON MO 3/4 INCH DIAMETER HAIL 1855/16 4 NE KINGSTON/CALDWELL MO GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL MAXIMUK NAME
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess, Livingston | 45 min |
| Apr 16, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette, Saline | 60 min |
| Apr 16, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 54 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.