Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1995, 7:38 AM CDT for Sullivan County, Missouri. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 1995, 7:38 AM CDT (12:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 1995, 8:06 AM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sullivan County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 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
- 358 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 726 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 85 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 418 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 396 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 131238 SVRMCI MOC211-131330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 738 AM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI ...SULLIVAN COUNTY AT 738 AM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MILAN MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL AS IT MOVES ACROSS EASTERN SULLIVAN COUNTY TOWARDS MYSTIC AND GREEN CITY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY* HEAVY RAIN THAT MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. BB
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 13, 3:28 AM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 3:28 AM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 325 AM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995 WARM FRONT MOVING NORTH IN CENTRAL KS BUT HASNT MOVED MUCH IN MISSOURI. EXPECT IT TO SLIDE NORTH OF MKC AREA EARLY ON THIS MORNING WITH THE MAIN FOCUS OF THE RAIN THAT IS OCCURRING WITH IT ALSO MOVING NORTH. HOWEVER...AIR TO ITS SOUTH AND AHEAD OF DRY LINE IN SC KS REMAINS QUITE UNSTABLE...SO STILL A GOOD CHANCE TO SEE STORMS MOVING INTO KC AREA THIS MORNING. GOOD LOW LEVEL DRYING SHOWN COMING INTO AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD BE ASSOCIATED WITH GOOD SUBISIDENCE AND GUSTING WINDS. FOR TONIGHT...BOUNDARY SETS UP ACROSS NEBRASKA AND IOWA PROVIDING THE FOCUS FOR RAIN TO OURh NORTH. TEMPS SHOULD BE ABLE TO WARM UP QUICKLY THIS AFTERNOON AS WINDS PICK UP. CURRENT ZFP HIGHS MAY NEED TO BE TWEEKED A BIT HIGHER. MCI 82/57 62 PC
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 13, 1:40 AM CDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 140 AM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995 ...STORM REPORTS FOR THE EARLY MORNING HOURS ON THE 13TH... TIME/DATE LOCATION/COUNTY j STATE EVENT/REMARKS 0026 CDT MOUND CITY MO 0.75 INCH HAIL REPORTED 05/13/95 HOLT BY SHERIFFS OFFICE WELVAERT
Local storm report, May 13, 3:58 AM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
353 AM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995
...STORM REPORTS FOR FRIDAY EVENING 12 MAY...
TIME/DATE LOCATION/COUNTY STATE EVENT/REMARKS
5/12 1628 EDGERTON (JOHNSON) KS LARGE LIMBS (6") DOWN
5/12 1634 LEES SUMMIT (JACKSON) MO 3/4 INCH HAIL 2 MILES
WEST OF HWY 291 AT 150
6/12 1634 LAKE WINNEBAGO (CASS) MO NICKEL SIZE HAIL.Special weather statement, May 13, 6:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067- KSZ025-057-060-102>105-131800- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 600 AM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995 THIS STATEMENT APPLIES TO THE EASTERN KANSAS COUNTIES OF ATCHISON DONIPHAN JOHNSON LEAVENWORTH LINN MIAMI WYANDOTTE AND THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN MISSOURI COUNTIES OF ADAIR CASS GENTRY JOHNSON PETTIS SCHUYLER ANDREW CHARITON GRUNDY LAFAYETTE PLATTE SULLIVAN ATCHISON CLAY HARRISON LINN PUTNAM WORTH BATES CLINTON HENRY LIVINGSTON RANDOLPH BUCHANAN COOPER HOLT MACON RAY CALDWELL DAVIESS HOWARD MERCER ST CLAIR CARROLL DEKALB JACKSON NODAWAY SALINE ...THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL MISSOURI TODAY... A LOW PRESSURE AREA WILL TRACK FROM NORTHERN KANSAS INTO IOWA TODAY... THEN INTO WISCONSIN TONIGHT. THIS LOW WILL BRING THUNDERSTORMS TO PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN MISSOURI THIS MORNING. FOR THIS AFTERNOON...DRIER AIR WILL BE PUSHING IN FROM THE WEST. THIS SHOULD HELP TO REIGNITE STORMS OVER MISSOURI. ALTHOUGH THERE IS A CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER WITH THE STORMS THIS MORNING...THE BETTER CHANCE OF SEVERE WILL BE WITH THE REFIRING OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. A HIGH RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS IN AN AREA TO THE EAST OF A LINE FROM NEAR BETHANY...TO SEDALIA. TO THE WEST OF THIS LINE THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. DURING THE EVENING HOURS...THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE MOVING OFF INTO EASTERN MISSOURI...LEAVING DRY WEATHER IN THE OUTLOOK AREA THE REST OF THE NIGHT. WITH THE POTENTIAL "OF SEVERE WEATHER TODAY... INCLUDING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. PC
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, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt | 25 min |
| May 13, 4:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan, Platte | 30 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
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.