Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1995, 8:24 PM CDT for Johnson County, Missouri. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1995, 8:24 PM CDT (01:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1995, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Johnson County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 280125 TORMCI MOC101-280215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 824 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...JOHNSON COUNTY AT 824 PM A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS LOCATED 8 MILES WEST OF WARRENSBURG AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. PEOPLE TRAVELLING ALONG 50 HIGHWAY WEST OF WARRENSBURG ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO. 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...SEE2K SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
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, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 45 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, 8:34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.