Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1995, 10:07 PM CDT for Harrison County, Missouri. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1995, 10:07 PM CDT (03:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1995, 10:39 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harrison County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 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 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 206 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 280308 TORMCI MOC081-280345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 1007 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI ...NORTHERN HARRISON COUNTY AT 1006 PM RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR EAGLEVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. PEOPLE IN EAGLESVILLE AND ALONG I-35 IN NORTHERN HARRISON COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AS THIS STORM APPROACHES. 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, 8:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 8:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 830 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995 NO TIME FOR DISC WITH SVR. DRYLN OVR EXTRM ERN KS WITH LINES OF SVR ACRS MUCH FA. CbONT TOR WW NMRS 483...485...486 AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR ERN PTNS OF FA THRU TNGT. TMRW LOOKS MUCH MUCH QUIETER AND DRIER. JULY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 27, 9:43 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
MOZ001-002-011-012-028-029-037-043-KSZ025-057-102>105-280345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 940 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995 ...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PARTS OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND EXTREME EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... THE LAST LINE OF POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS CLEARED THE ST JOSEPH AREA AND THE KANSAS SIDE OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA. THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT WEST OF A LINE FROM 15 MILES EAST OF MARYVILLE TO THE STATE LINE IN THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA. THE TORNDAO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE EASTERN HALF OF THE KANSAS CITY AREA EAST OF THE MISSOURI AND KANSAS STATE LINE. JULY b
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, 8:24 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, 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.