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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 5, 1996Macon County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 9:27 PM CDT for Macon County, Missouri. It was in force for 48 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, 9:27 PM CDT (02:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1996, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Macon County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:29 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

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 264 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, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 1996-06-06Temperature 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, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 1996-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 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
1505 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 060226
SVRMCI
MOC121-060315-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
927 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  SOUTHERN MACON COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    MACON
    EXCELLO
    COLLEGE MOUND

* AT 923 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST
  OF MACON MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR MACON BY 930 PM AND NEAR EXCELLO AND
  COLLEGE MOUND BY 945 PM CDT.  HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE AND WINDS
  IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG BUIdLDING.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE
TORNADOES.

MJH

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, 6 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 3:08 PM CDT, 6 hours 19 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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 8:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPlatte55 min
Jun 5, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPlatte46 min
Jun 5, 9:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson51 min
Jun 5, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass, Jackson48 min
Jun 5, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXGentry, Harrison63 min
Jun 5, 11:02 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXGrundy, Harrison43 min
Jun 5, 11:45 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXGrundy50 min
Jun 6, 12:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLivingston52 min
Jun 6, 12:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Lafayette47 min
Jun 6, 12:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLinn38 min
Jun 6, 12:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPlatte33 min
Jun 6, 1:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Lafayette47 min
Jun 6, 1:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLinn39 min
Jun 6, 9:11 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXGrundy, Harrison4 hr

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.