Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1995, 12:24 AM CDT for Holt County, Missouri. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 1995, 12:24 AM CDT (05:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 1995, 12:49 AM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Holt County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 337 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 491 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 130525 SVRMCI MOC003-087-130615- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 1224 AM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI ...ANDREW COUNTY...HOLT COUNTY AT 1224 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FROM MOUND CITY TO FOREST CITY. DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN SIZE ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL ALSO AFFECT OREGON AND NEW POINT. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRON,G BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. WELVAERT
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 12, 9:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 12, 9:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 910 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 1995 SCT TRW THAT MOVED THRU LATE THIS AFTN HAS MOVED INTO ERN MO WITH WK SHRTWV. SCT RW LINGER IN NWRN MO IN AREA OF ISENT LIFT AND UPR LVL DVRG. EVE UPR AIR SHOWED TOP SOUNDING RATHER STABLE WITH MID LVL CAPPING PRESENT. SUPERCELL AND OTHER TRW MVG ALG NRN PERIPHERY OF CAP IN NCNTRL KS. AIR MASS SOMEWHAT STABLE IN ERN KS THIS EVE...BUT INCR MOIST AND LLVL WARMING WL TEND TO DESTABILIZE. TRW WL LIKELY MV INTO AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT...POSSIBLY SEVERE. OTHERWISE...XPCT SHRTW IN CO AND MID LVL COOLING TO HELP TRIGGER ADDITIONAL TRW TNGT IN CNTRL KS AND MOVE INTO AREA TWD MORNING. WL REvFINE TEMPS AND WNDS A LTL. DB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Maries | 45 min |
| May 12, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Maries | 47 min |
| May 13, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew | 45 min |
| May 13, 4:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan, Platte | 30 min |
| May 13, 7:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Sullivan | 28 min |
| May 13, 7:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Schuyler | 40 min |
| May 13, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Sullivan | 40 min |
| May 13, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Putnam, Schuyler | 40 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.