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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 24, 1996Pettis County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1996, 5:48 PM CST for Pettis County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 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: Mar 24, 1996, 5:48 PM CST (23:48 UTC)
Expired: Mar 24, 1996, 6:35 PM CST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Pettis County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -709 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1185 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 378 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 619 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Mar 24, 2:30 PM CST, 3 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 2:30 PM CST, 3 hours 18 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
325 AM CST SUN MAR 24 1996

TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8PM FOR EAX CWA...

MDT CAPE WITH LN OF TRW MOVING AHEAD OF FNT...MID/UPR LVL JET MAIN
FEATURE ON SVR POTENTIAL...STEEPENING LAPSE RATE WILL BRING POTENTIAL
FOR HAIL AS SFC FRONT INTERACTS WITH RICH THETA-E AIR OVR WRN AND NRN
MO. BEST DIRECTION SHEAR WILL LIKELY BE CONFINED TO SRN 1/3 OF
CWA...SO ANTICIPATE BEST SVR THREAT WILL BE S OF A PAOLA-RICHMOND-IRK
LINE BY LATE AFTN EARLY EVE.

WITH THE EXCEPTION OF CLD BREAK WITH DRY LN...EXPECT CWA TO REMAIN
CLOUD COVERED OVERNIGHT...WITH WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA BEING MET W OF
ATCHISON KS...WORTH CO. MO LINE BY 09Z. WOULD EXPECT WRN 1/2 OF CWA TO
BE UNDER A WIND ADVISORY DURING MON AM HOURS. WITH LOW PULLING AWAY
INTO GREAT LAKES...GRADIENT SHOULD LESSEN TO BLO WIND ADVSRY CRITERIA
DURING MON PM.

SNOW SHOWERS LIKELY AFT MID OVR NWRN CORNER OF CWA...MOVING INTO THE
REST OF THE CWA BY 12Z TO 18Z MON. DO NOT EXPECT ACCUMULATION AT THIS
TIME...BUT VISIBILITIES BY BE REDUCED SLIGHTLY.

PREFER SLIGHTLY COLDER TEMPS THAN NGM/AVN...SO WILL LIKELY GO JUST
UNDER MOS GUIDANCE FOR MINS TONIGHT...MAXES TOMORROW.

MCI 24/31 74

SMITH

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In the hours before

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Local storm report, Mar 24, 4:48 PM CST, 1 hour before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 24, 3:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	64 min
Mar 24, 3:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay	64 min
Mar 24, 3:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	59 min
Mar 24, 3:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Platte	59 min
Mar 24, 3:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	64 min
Mar 24, 3:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates	64 min
Mar 24, 3:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Lafayette, Ray	49 min
Mar 24, 3:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clinton	49 min
Mar 24, 3:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Miami	47 min
Mar 24, 3:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn	61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1996 Every 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.