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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 6, 1996Linn County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1996, 1:36 AM CDT for Linn County, Missouri. It was in force for 39 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 6, 1996, 1:36 AM CDT (06:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1996, 2:15 AM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Linn County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:39 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 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 238 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3130 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 167 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
3130 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
975 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
167 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
401 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
5.1
Supercell composite
18.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 060635
SVRMCI
MOC115-060725-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
136 AM CDT THU JUN 6 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  LINN COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 215 AM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    MEADVILLE
    LACLEDE
    FOUNTAIN GROVE

* AT 129 AM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF
LINNEUS  MOVING SOUTHSOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.  .

* THE STORM WILL BE LACLEDE AT 145 AM AND AT FOUNTAIN GROVE AT 150
AM. ONE INCH   HAIL AND 70 MPH WINDS.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.  FOR
YOUR  SAFETY...MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

A TORNADO WATCH PIS ALSO IN EFFECT.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND
OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES.

BODNER

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, 10 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 3:08 PM CDT, 10 hours 28 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, 9:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMacon48 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, 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.