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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 4, 1995Doniphan County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 1995, 3:09 PM CDT for Doniphan County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 4, 1995, 3:09 PM CDT (20:09 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Doniphan County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 104 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1995-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 440 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
104 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-489 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
440 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
496 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 1:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLeavenworth52 min
Jul 4, 4:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Miami43 min
Jul 4, 4:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLeavenworth, Wyandotte37 min
Jul 4, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison49 min
Jul 4, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDoniphan60 min
Jul 4, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison52 min
Jul 4, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMiami54 min
Jul 4, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson39 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.