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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 16, 1995Howard County, Missouri

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

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 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1995-04-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1995-04-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
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

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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
.
JULY
Local 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

                  

   NAME
Local 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

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   NAME

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 16, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDaviess, Livingston45 min
Apr 16, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLafayette, Saline60 min
Apr 16, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper54 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.