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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 16, 1995Miami County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 16, 1995, 9:48 PM CDT for Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 16, 1995, 9:48 PM CDT (02:48 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 1995, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Miami County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:47 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 426 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -256 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 170249
TORMCI
KSC121-170330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO
948 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...NORTHERN MIAMI COUNTY
 
AT 947 PM...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS LOCATED IN NORTHEAST FRANKLIN
COUNTY...12 MILES WEST OF THE TOWN OF HILLSDALE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
 
PERSONS IN HILLSDALE...THE VICINITY OF HILLSDALE LAKE...AND PERSON
TRAVELLING ALONG I35 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 199 AND 202 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...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.
 
PC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Miami	50 min
May 16, 9:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Johnson	33 min
May 16, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	47 min
May 17, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Miami	21 min
May 17, 2:10 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Wyandotte	6 hr
May 17, 2:10 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Miami	6 hr
May 17, 3:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Leavenworth	42 min
May 17, 4:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Wyandotte	40 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.