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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 26, 1996Clay County, Clinton County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1996, 8:46 PM CDT for Clay County, Clinton County, Missouri. It was in force for 59 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 26, 1996, 8:46 PM CDT (01:46 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1996, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:46 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 8:50 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 56	Claycomo, MO

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 2098 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 291 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.4
Supercell composite: 14.5

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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 May 26, 3:37 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 3:37 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
315 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

FCST QUESTION WILL BE WHEN NOT IF TSTMS WILL REDVLP. AMS CONTS TO
RECOVER FM SUBSIDENCE LEFTOVER FM ERYR MCS. SOME AFTN SUN HAS ALLOWED
AMS TO DSTBLZ S OF E-W FNT...BNDRY EXTDS FM DEEPENING LOW OVR OK PNHDL
EWD ACRS SRN KS AND CNTRL MO. ADAP SHOWS NO CAP ACRS SRN 2/3 KS AND MO.
WSI RADAR LOOP SHOWS CLUSTERS OF TSTMS OVR S CNTRL/CNTRL KS HEADING NNE
TWDS NEB. RAFS GRIDDED DATA AND TO A LESSER EXTENT THE ETA SHOW BEST
THTE ADVCTN INTO ERN NEB BY 00Z.

OVERALL WILL GO WITH SLOER ETA AS CLOSED UPR SYS TYPICALLY COME OUT
SLOER THAN PROGD. NGM PLACES SFC LOW TOO FAR BACK INTO CD AIR TMRW.
MAIN SHOW WILL BE SVR TSTMS CURRENTLY DVLPG IN PVA ZONE FM OK INTO CNTRL
KS. THIS ACTVTY WILL GRADUALLY SPREAD E AS CELLS TRK NNE. EST ARRIVAL OF
THIS ACTVTY INTO FAR WRN CWA AFT 03Z...INTO KC METRO BTN 04Z-06Z. WILL
ALSO NEED TO WATCH E-W BNDRY ACRS FAR SRN CNTYS THIS EVE FOR DVLPMT OF
SCT TSTMS AS AMS UNCAPPED. LIKE QPF OUTLOOK AND AGREE WITH STL IN
COVERING ENTIRE CWA WITH A FFA FOR TNGT.

NGM/ETA BITH FCST DRY SLOT TO MOV ACRS W CNTRL MO SHORTLY AFT 12Z.
HWVR...WILL NEED TO CONSIDER REDVLPMT FOR STG/PSBL SVR TSTMS IN THE
AFTN AS SRN PTN OF CWA WILL BE UNDER CD POOL ALOFT AND LIKELY A H8
THERMAL RDG LEADING TO STEEP LAPSE RATES AND CNVTV INSTBY. NOTICE TSTMS
OVR ERN CO/WRN KS UNDER CDR AIR ALOFT. TEMPS ALSO LIKELY AFFECTED AND
WITH A SOUTH WIND AND ANY SUN SHUD BE ABLE TO BTR GUID.

MCI 64/77   95

JULY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	52 min
May 26, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	54 min
May 26, 9:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Johnson	36 min
May 26, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair	62 min
May 26, 10:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Lafayette	40 min
May 26, 10:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Bates	46 min
May 26, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson, Lafayette	51 min
May 26, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry	57 min
May 26, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Ray	62 min
May 26, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Saline	59 min
May 26, 11:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis	55 min
May 27, 12:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton, Howard, Randolph	58 min
May 27, 12:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper	58 min
May 27, 3:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Mercer	46 min
May 27, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Sullivan	46 min
May 26, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Leavenworth	43 min
May 26, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Miami	41 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.