Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Kansas City, MO

January 17, 1996Cass County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 17, 1996, 6:00 PM CST for Cass County, Missouri. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 17, 1996, 6:00 PM CST (00:00 UTC)
Expired: Jan 17, 1996, 6:30 PM CST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Cass County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 254 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 374 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 390 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 17, 2:34 PM CST, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 17, 2:34 PM CST, 3 hours 26 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
200 PM CST WED JAN 17 1996

NUMEROUS FCST PRBLMS NEXT 24 HRS AS STG SFC LO AND UPR TROF MVS
THRU CNTRL AND SRN PLAINS TNGT. AS PER MOIST IMAGERY...UPR TROF
DIGGING INTO SRN ROCKIES WITH NUMEROUS SHRTWVS ROTATING THRU TROF.
LEAD WAVE LIFTING NNE THRU WRN KS WITH STRONGEST WAVE IN NERN AZ.
SFC LO MVG SLGTLY S OF E ACR WRN KS WITH MDLS RELATIVELY SIMILAR
IN MVG SFC LO ACR WCNTRL/NWRN MO TNGT. H8 CIRCULATION AND ISENT
LIFT WITH SYS TO BE WELL NORTH OF AREA WITH ONLY UPR DYNAMICS TO
WORK WITH THRU THURS AM.

SFC DWPTS HAVE CLIMBED INTO LOWER TO MID 50S THIS AFTN. GRIDDS
INDICATE MARGINAL INSTBLY PRIOR TO FROPA...BUT WITH STG MCONV AND
IMPRESSIVE UPR DYNAMICS...WL LIKELY SEE TRW AHD AND ESPECIALLY ALG
FNT. AGREE WITH SELS THAT MOMENTUM TRANSFER OF STG WND FIELD MAY
PRODUCE STG WNDS IN TRW. MAIN THREAT OF MARGINALLY SVR WNDS WL
BE AROUND FROPA AT 06Z IN MKC.
RAIN TO CHANGE TO SNOW BY AM...HOWEVER AMOUNTS LOOKING LIGHT
AS BEST UVV BEFORE CHG OVR. H7-H3 QVEC CONV SUGGEST AMOUNTS IN 1-3
INCH RANGE IN MKC AREA WITH SLGTLY HIER AMOUNTS TO THE NORTH.

TEMPS TO PLUNGE LATE TNGT AND THURS WITH VERY $STG NORTH WNDS
RANGING FM 25 TO 35 WITH GUSTS TO 45.  TEMPS TO PLUNGE TO
NR 10 BY THURS EVENING WITH WIND CHILLS BETWEEN -25 TO -35.

GUID LOOKS OK FOR TNGT AND THURS.

MCI 21/21 +8

BEUSTERIEN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 17, 5:31 PM CST, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
530 PM CDT TUE OCT 3 1995

...STORM REPORTS FOR THE AFTERNOON/EVENING OF 1/17/96

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1706 PM    WESTON                    MO   TREES DOWN IN THE WESTON
01/17/95   PLATTE                         STATE PARK

WELVAERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 17, 8:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Doniphan	37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.