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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 2, 1996Linn County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1996, 3:26 PM CDT for Linn County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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
Jun 2, 1996, 3:26 PM CDT (20:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1996, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Linn County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 172 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1996-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1996-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1355 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 3:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass53 min
Jun 2, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBates64 min
Jun 2, 4:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Lafayette44 min
Jun 2, 4:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHenry53 min
Jun 2, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis59 min
Jun 2, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSaline59 min
Jun 2, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Miami60 min
Jun 2, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLinn31 min
Jun 2, 4:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLinn12 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 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.