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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 27, 1995Lafayette County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1995, 7:15 PM CDT for Lafayette County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 1995, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Lafayette County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 27, 7:20 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Bates City -, MO	A severe thunderstorm dropped up to golfball size hail on Bates City, and then went on to develop 2 weak tornadoes. The first tornado touched down south of Bates City at 1820 CST and was crossing Interstate 70 3 miles west of Odessa at 1831 CST. Only minor t
May 27, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Higginsville, MO	A severe thunderstorm dropped up to golfball size hail on Bates City, and then went on to develop 2 weak tornadoes. The first tornado touched down south of Bates City at 1820 CST and was crossing Interstate 70 3 miles west of Odessa at 1831 CST. Only minor t

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 1273 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1439 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 6.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 280016
TORMCI
MOC107-280100-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO
715 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...LAFAYETTE COUNTY
 
AT 712 PM A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF ODESSA.
 
PEOPLE IN THE VICINITY OF ODESSA AND MAYVIEW ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
TORDADO.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

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 27, 3:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 3:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
340 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995

ANY HEAVY RAINER WILL CAUSE PROBLEMS WITH ADDITIONAL 1/2 TO 3/4 INCHES
ACROSS THE AREA THIS MRNG WITH ISOLD 2+ AMTS IN CNTRL MO.  CONT TO HAVE
SCT HEVY RAIN CORE MOVE FROM SW MO INTO CNTRL TO N CNTRL MO ATTM.  MSTR
AXIS APPRS TO BE SHIFTG EAST AS NEW CELLS FORM AND MOVE SLIGHTLY EAST OF
PREVIOUS PATHS.  SATL SHOWS DRYLINE ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS BUT CU APPEARS
TO BE WELL CAPPED.  VERT MOTION ASSCTD WITH JET MAX APPARENT IN CIRRUS
PATCH MOVING NWD ACROSS W MO ATTM.

MDLS LIFT 850 MB CNVG AND JET MAX TO THE NORTH BY 00Z!  ONLY CHC FOR SVR
APPEARS TO BE FROM INSTBY AND POSSIBLYn LIFT FROM UPR JET.  SELS WATCH
HAS BEEN ISSUED.

BROWNING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	59 min
May 27, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	50 min
May 27, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	68 min
May 27, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew	49 min
May 27, 8:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Carroll, Lafayette	44 min
May 27, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry, Nodaway	44 min
May 27, 8:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Johnson	51 min
May 27, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette	41 min
May 27, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry, Harrison	36 min
May 27, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry, Harrison, Worth	46 min
May 27, 10:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Harrison	32 min
May 27, 11:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Pulaski	57 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.