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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 18, 1995Maries County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 18, 1995, 10:38 AM CDT for Maries County, Missouri. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 1995, 10:38 AM CDT (15:38 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1995, 11:30 AM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Maries County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 336 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCOU 181539
TORCOU
MOC125-181630-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
1038 AM CDT THU MAY 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...MARIES COUNTY
 
AT 1037 RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 15 MILES WEST OF ROLLA OR 5
MILES SOUTH OF DIXON. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL
REACH HAYDEN AROUND 11 AM. VIENNA IS ALSO NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at May 18, 9:51 AM CDT, 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 9:51 AM CDT, 47 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
950 AM CDT THU MAY 18 1995

UPR LOW VCNTY BUTLER ATTM WITH SFC LOW NR TBN.  SYS SHWG GOOD E MOVT
AND WILL PULL E OUT OF AREA TDY.  BACK EDGE OF RAIN ALNG A BETHANY...
CAMERON...INDEPENDENCE...BUTLER LINE AND ONLY LGT L- PSBL BEHIND IN
WRAP ARND LOW CLDS.  SAT LOOP SHWS CLRNG NOT TOO FAR AWAY BUT WON'T
HOLD MY BREATH ON ITS ARRIVAL.  ANY BRKS THAT DO MANAGE TO OCCUR
LIKELY TO FILL IN QUICKLY.  NO OTR CHGS YET...

WELVAERT

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 18, 5:26 AM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
525 AM CDT THU MAY 18 1995

...DELAYED STORM REPORT FOR 5/17/95

TIME/DATE    LOCATION/COUNTY       STATE      EVENT/REMARKS

1007 CDT   ST CLAIR CO                MO   WIND GUST TO 60 MPH...
05/17/95   7 N OSCEOLA                     REPORTED BY HAM RADIO OPERATOR

1008 CDT   ST CLAIR CO                MO   TREES DOWN...TIME ESTIMATED
05/17/95   NEAR OSCEOLA

JULPY

Special weather statement, May 18, 6:10 AM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before

MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-043>046-053-054-067-
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-191200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
605 AM CDT THU MAY 18 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

...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE REGION THROUGH THIS
AFTERNOON BUT NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED...

AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF KANSAS EAST OF
JOPLIN WILL MOVE TO THE EAST TODAY...REACHING SOUTHERN ILLINOIS BY THIS
EVENING. YET ANOHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS
EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI THIS MORNING AND THEN SHIFT
INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE
CENTER...THE HEART OF THIS WEEKS STORMY WEATHER...WAS OVER CENTRAL
KANSAS. THIS FEATURE WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN MISSOURI LATER THIS MORNING
...THEN WEAKEN AS IT TRACKS EAST INTO SOUTHERN ILLINOIS BY FRIDAY
MORNING.

DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING
SOUTHWARD FROM THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA
INTO SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. AS THIS BAND OF STORMS
MOVES TO THE NORTHEAST BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE
POSSIBLE. RADAR ESTIMATES UP TO HALF AN INCH OF RAIN MAY FALL IN AN
HOUR. THE AIRMASS OVER THE OUTLOOK AREA REMAINS QUITE MOIST BUT IT HAS
BECOME MORE STABLE. THIS MINIMIZES THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER...THUS
NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT.

THE RAIN SHOULD COME TO END LATER THIS AFTERNOON...ENDING FROM WEST TO
EAST.

JULY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	St. Clair	45 min
May 17, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Benton, Hickory	51 min
May 17, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Camden	41 min
May 18, 10:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pulaski	41 min
May 18, 10:22 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Pulaski	38 min
May 18, 11:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Camden, Miller	52 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.