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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 4:14 PM CDT for Sullivan County, Missouri. It was in force for 46 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
- May 27, 1996, 4:14 PM CDT (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1996, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sullivan County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -264 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1614 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 27, 3:36 PM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 3:36 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 27, 11:52 AM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
1152 AM CDT MON MAY 27 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
958 PM 3 N HOLDEN MO TORNADO
05/26/96 JOHNSON TREE DAMAGE. REPORT FROM
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
40 HOUSES DAMAGED AT
RAINTREE ADDITION.
1125 PM HIGGINSVILLE MO 60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/26/96 LAFAYETTE
1125 PM HIGGINSVILLE MO FLOODING
05/26/96 LAFAYETTE ROAD CLOSED AT I-70
AND HWY. 13
1135 PM SLATER MO 60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/26/96 SALINE
1150 PM SHACKLEFORD MO TSTM WIND
05/26/96 SALINE TREES DOWN. REPORT
FROM KMMO RADIO.
1208 AM MALTA BEND MO FLOODING
05/27/96 SALINE ROAD FLOODED ON HWY 65
S AND E OF MALTA BEND
1224 AM SALISBURY MO TSTM WIND
05/27/96 CHARITON SEVERAL TREES AND
POWER LINES DOWN.
rREPORT FROM SALISBURY P.D.
1258 AM FAYETTE MO TSTM WIND
05/27/96 HOWARD TREES DOWN. REPORT FROM
FAYETTE FIRE DEPT.
SMITHLocal storm report, May 27, 11:59 AM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
1152 AM CDT MON MAY 27 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
958 PM 3 N HOLDEN MO TORNADO
05/26/96 JOHNSON TREE DAMAGE. REPORT FROM
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
40 HOUSES DAMAGED AT
RAINTREE ADDITION.Local storm report, May 27, 12:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
1152 AM CDT MON MAY 27 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
958 PM 3 N HOLDEN MO TORNADO
05/26/96 JOHNSON TREE DAMAGE. REPORT FROM
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
CORRECTION TO DELETE TEXT ERRONEOUSLY ADDED TO HOLDEN REPORTSpecial weather statement, May 27, 1:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-281200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 100 PM CDT MON MAY 27 1996 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI FROM MID AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY EVENING... FORECAST...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOST LIKELY BETWEEN 1 PM AND 9 PM OVER PARTS OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...NORTH AND EAST OF A ST JOSEPH TO CARROLLTON TO SEDALIA LINE. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD DIMINISH SHORTLY AFTER DARK ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA. THE THREAT OF ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS SHOULD BE LIMITED...BUT LOCATIONS NORTH OF A ST. JOSEPH TO MOBERLY LINE MAY SEE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN IN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. CIVIL DEFENSE COORDINATORS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND STORM SPOTTER NETWORKS MAY WISH TO MONITOR ANY WEATHER UPDATES THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. DISCUSSION...AN INTENSE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE CENTERED OVER EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AND INTO WESTERN IOWA BY THIS EVENING. COLD AIR ALOFT IN THE VICINITY OF THE CENTER OF LOW PRESSURE WILL LIKELY PROVIDE ENOUGH INSTABILITY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE AFTERNOON HEATING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BECDOME SEVERE BETWEEN 3 AND 8 PM. THE THREAT OF FURTHER THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET AS TEMPERATURES COOL. JULY
Local storm report, May 27, 4:13 PM CDT, 1 minute before
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</html>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, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Clinton | 59 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 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1996Every 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.