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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 27, 1995Harrison County, Missouri

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.

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, 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.

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 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
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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, 8:24 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, 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.