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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 27, 1995Johnson County, Missouri

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.

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 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.

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, 8:01 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXCarroll, Lafayette44 min
May 27, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXGentry, Nodaway44 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.