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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 6:02 PM CDT for Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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
- Jun 5, 1996, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Miami County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 6:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Hillsdale, KS |
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 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 739 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 419 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
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 Jun 5, 3:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 3:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 245 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996 CONVECTION AGAIN MAIN CONCERN. TRW DVLPNG ALG SEWD MVG OUTFLO BNDRY FM NCNTRL KS TO NWRN MO. LATEST VSBY STLT ALSO SHOWS ANOTHER BNDRY STRETCHING FM EAST OF KC SE INTO LAKE OF OZARKS. AIRMASS AHD OF BOUNDARY VERY UNSTABLE WITH LIS -8 TO -10 WITH CAPES 3000-4000 J/KG. XPCT TRW TO CONTINUE DVLP SE ALONG BOUNDARIES WITH POTENTIAL OF SVR. BOUNDARIES WL LIKELY BECOME NRLY STNRY WEST TO EAST ACR CENTRAL MO TNGT AS SFC LO AND 70 KT H3 SPEED MAX ENTER REGION TNGT. INITIALLY XPCT EXTENSIVE CONVECTION ALONG BOUNDARIES IN GREATEST SMC EARLY TONIGHT WITH RW/TRW NORTH OF BNDARY IN STG THETAE ADV. AREAS ALG AND NORTH OF BOUNDARY WL LIKELY SEE HEAVY RAINFALL WITH 1-3 INCHES PSBL ACR MOST OF CWA. RAINFALL MAY EXCEED FFG...SO WOULD LIKE FFA FOR TNGT ACR CWA. HEAVY RAINFALL ALSO XPCTD LATER TNGT AS XPCT MCS TO DVLP AHD OF FNT TO MOVE ACR NWRN AND WNCTRL MO AFT MIDN. PRECIP TO END IN WRN MO EARLY AM AND BY NOON ACR NCNTRL AND CNTRL MO. GUID TEMPS LOOK OK. MCI 64/78 83 DB DJV
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 1:01 PM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
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Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry, Worth | 28 min |
| Jun 5, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison | 49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.