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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 8, 1995Maries County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1995, 2:10 AM CDT for Maries County, Missouri. It was in force for 24 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 8, 1995, 2:10 AM CDT (07:10 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 1995, 2:34 AM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Maries County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 464 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 267 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCOU 080711
SVRCOU
MOC125-080745-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
210 AM CDT MON MAY 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...EASTERN MARIES COUNTY
 
AT 210AM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A BAND FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF
ROLLA...NEAR DIXON...TO 25 MILES NORTH OF ROLLA.
 
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES PER HOUR.
 
TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF STORMS INCLUDE VIENNA...VICHY
...AND BELLE.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HA*IL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
REAUGH

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 May 7, 9:17 PM CDT, 4 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 9:17 PM CDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
910 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995

HAD LTL TIME TO LOOK AT NEW UPR AIR...BUT QUICK LOOK SHOWS BRISK
AND MOIST H8 INFLO WITH LTL CONVECTION TO OUR SOUTH TO IMPEDE
TRANSPORT. AREA QUITE SATURATED AN WITH NUMEROUS TRW IN ERN KS
MVG SLOWLY EAST...FLASH FLOOD WATCH WARRANTED. SVR WATCH BOX IN
EFFECT JUST SOUTH OF METRO. XPCT MOST OF SVR WX TO BE SOUTH OF
METRO TNGT IN BETTER INSTABILITY. TOP SOUNDING NOT TOO IMPRESSIVE
WITH MID LVL COOLING NOT TO ARRIVE TIL AFTER DAYBREAK. HOWEVER...
FEW CELLS MAY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO
45 MPH.

DB

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 8, 12:46 AM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

MOZ043-044-045-053-054-080645-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO
1245 AM CDT MON MAY 8 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR WEST-CENTRAL AND PORTIONS OF
CENTRAL MISSOURI...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 313 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN WEST-CENTRAL MISSOURI

CASS   BATES   JOHNSON   HENRY   ST CLAIR

IN CENTRAL MISSOURI

PETTIS

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF THESE COUNTIES...ENDING THE
THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER.

BB

Local storm report, May 8, 12:53 AM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
1251 AM CDT MON MAY 8 1995

 TIME       COUNTY/STATE          EVENT

1140 PM     ST CLAIR/MO           LARGE TREE DOWNED BY STRONG WINDS IN
                                  OSCEOLA. REPORTED BY SHERIFFS OFFICE.

1200 AM/8TH ST CLAIR/MO           MOBILE HOME DESTROYED BY STRONG WINDS
                                  ON HIGHWAY UU APPROXIMATELY 2 MILES
                      &            SOUTH OF COLLINS. OCCUPANTS ESCAPED
                                  THE HOME JUST BEFORE THE DAMAGE
                                  OCCURRED.

BB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	St. Clair	40 min
May 8, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Morgan	40 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.