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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 27, 1995Carroll County, Lafayette County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1995, 8:01 PM CDT for Carroll County, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 1995, 8:01 PM CDT (01:01 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1995, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Carroll County, MO, Lafayette County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 174 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1995-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1273 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1995-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 280103
TORMCI
MOC033-107-280145-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO
801 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...CARROLL COUNTY
 
IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...NORTHERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY
 
A TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR DOVER AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
 
 
 
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 FLOORB.  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, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 3:41 PM CDT, 4 hours 20 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison59 min
May 27, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXLafayette45 min
May 27, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass50 min
May 27, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson68 min
May 27, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew49 min
May 27, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXGentry, Nodaway44 min
May 27, 8:24 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXJohnson51 min
May 27, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLafayette41 min
May 27, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXGentry, Harrison36 min
May 27, 9:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXGentry, Harrison, Worth46 min
May 27, 10:07 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXHarrison32 min
May 27, 11:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXPulaski57 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.