Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1995, 9:21 PM CDT for Cooper County, Missouri. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 1995, 9:21 PM CDT (02:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1995, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 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 02:20 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
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 434 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1250 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 170221 SVRMCI MOC053-170315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 921 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...COOPER COUNTY AT 920PM DOPPLER WEQTHER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTOMR 10 MILES WEST OF BOONEVILLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER INTO BOONEVILLE. LARGE HAIL UP TO 11/2 INCH IN DIAMETER IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. THE SAME THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX PRODUCED LARGE HAIL IN NEW FRANKLIN SHORTLY AFTER 9PM. 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 WATE$R CROSSINGS. MAXIMUK &
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, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 8:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 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 34 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
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JULYLocal storm report, Apr 16, 6:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 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 51 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 48 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
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 8:58 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
MOZ013-014-021-022-023-028-029-030-031-037-038-043-044-045-046- 053-054-067-KSZ103-104-105-170300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 858 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH # 200 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIE... IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI... CLINTON...DEKALB IN NORTH CENTRAL... DAVIESS...LIVINGSTON...CALDWELL... IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI... PLATTE...JACKSON...CLAY...RAY... IN EASTERN KANSAS... LEAVENWORTH...WYANDOTTE...JOHNSON. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT IN PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE ENTIRE TORNADO WATCH # 199 HAS ALSO BEEN CANCELLED. BROWNING
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, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard | 48 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.