Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 18, 1995, 10:22 AM CDT for Pulaski County, Missouri. It was in force for 38 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 10:22 AM CDT (15:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pulaski County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:23 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 10:25 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Waynesville, MO | A tornado touched down six miles south of Waynesville along the Roubidoux Creek at a sand and gravel company. The tornado heavily damaged a building at the company as well as some of the vehicles in the parking lot. Two people inside of a pick-up truck recei |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 326 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOU 181523 TORCOU MOC169-181600- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 1022 AM CDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...PULASKI COUNTY AT 1020 AM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR WAYNESVILLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SAINT ROBERTS IS ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. KENNEDY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | St. Clair | 45 min |
| May 17, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Benton, Hickory | 51 min |
| May 17, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Camden | 41 min |
| May 18, 10:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pulaski | 41 min |
| May 18, 10:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Maries | 52 min |
| May 18, 11:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Camden, Miller | 52 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.