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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 5, 1996Harrison County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 6:41 PM CDT for Harrison County, Missouri. 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 5, 1996, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1996, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Harrison County, MO

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 206 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1996-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 113 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1996-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 246 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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 Jun 5, 3:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 3:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 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 40 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXGentry, Worth28 min
Jun 5, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMiami43 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.