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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 4, 1995Johnson County, Miami County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 1995, 7:18 PM CDT for Johnson County, Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 4, 1995, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Johnson County, KS, Miami County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 77 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 809 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 873 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 050017
TORMCI
KSC091-121-050100-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO
718 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...JOHNSON COUNTY...NORTHERN MIAMI COUNTY
 
AT 718 PM A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR HILLSDALE LAKE MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PEOPLE IN SPRING HILL..OLATHE...AND SOUTHERN
OVERLAND PARK ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
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...S^EEK 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 Jul 4, 3:01 PM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 3:01 PM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
300 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995

ANOTHER ROUND LIKELY WITH TORNADO WATCH ALREADY IN EFFECT.  CELLS
OVR NE KS ALREADY EXIBITING SUPERCELL CHARACTERISTICS AND WATCHING
CAREFULLY.  HAVE GOOD RADAR SIGNATURES ON STORM CURRENTLY PRODUCING
TORNADO NR HIAWATHA KS.  SO FAR...ACTION HAS MOVED NNE AND STAYED
AWAY FM MOST OF MO...BUT THIS WILL CHANGE.  ADAP PARAMETERS VRY
UNSTABLE WITH LI IN EXCESS OF -10...VIRTUALLY NO CAP AND AS MUCH
CONVGNCE AS YOU WOULD EVER WANT.  THINK IT IS VERY SAFE TO GO WAY
ABV GUID POPS...AND ALSO LEAN CLOSER TO COOLER FAN ON TEMPS AS CNVCTN
SHOULD ASSIST FNTL MOVMT.  AMS ALSO PRETTY JUICY...AND THINK HEAVY
RAINS A GOOD BET AS WELL.  MAY WANT TO RECONSIDER A FFA FOR AREA AS
THESE CELLS BECOME A COMPLEX.

ALSO LEAN TWD COOLER TEMPS TMRW AS FNT FINALLY PUSHES THRU.  ALSO SOME
RELIEF FROM THE VRY MUGGY CONDS.

MCI   62/78   84

WELVAERT

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 4, 5:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
532 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995

...STORM REPORTS FOR THE AFTERNOON OF JULY 4TH...

TIME/DATE    LOCATION/COUNTY       STATE      EVENT/REMARKS

1535 CDT   5S AND 4W OF HIGHLAND     KS   TORNADO SPOTTED ON THE
07/04/95   DONIPHAN                       GROUND.  SOME DAMAGE REPORTED.

1555 CDT   NORTHWEST OF HIGHLAND     KS   NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
07/04/95   DONIPHAN                       SHERIFF.

1600 CDT   ARRINGTON                 KS   DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED.
07/04/95   ATCHISON

1630 CDT   MUSCOTAH                  KS   DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED.
07/04/95   ATCHISON

1700 CDT   LANCASTER                 KS   DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED.
07/04/95   ATCHISON

WELVAERT

Local storm report, Jul 4, 5:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
532 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995

...STORM REPORTS FOR THE AFTERNOON OF JULY 4TH...

TIME/DATE    LOCATION/COUNTY       STATE      EVENT/REMARKS

1535 CDT   5S AND 4W OF HIGHLAND     KS   TORNADO SPOTTED ON THE
07/04/95   DONIPHAN                       GROUND.  SOME DAMAGE REPORTED.

1555 CDT   NORTHWEST OF HIGHLAND     KS   NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
07/04/95   DONIPHAN                       SHERIFF.

1600 CDT   ARRINGTON                 KS   DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED.
07/04/95   ATCHISON

1630 CDT   MUSCOTAH                  KS   DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED.
07/04/95   ATCHISON

1700 CDT   LANCASTER                 KS   DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED.
07/04/95   ATCHISON

WELVAERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	43 min
Jul 4, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn	37 min
Jul 4, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Miami	26 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.