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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 173, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 16, 1996Buchanan County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1996, 7:02 PM CDT for Buchanan County, Missouri. It was in force for 28 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 16, 1996, 7:02 PM CDT (00:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1996, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Buchanan County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 16, 7:05 PM CDTHail 0.75Agency, MO

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 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 16, 3:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
350 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 1996

SHORT ON TIME AGN...TROPICAL ENVRNMT TO CONT OVR AREA TNGT WITH MAIN
SFC TROF IN CNTRL KS MOVG INTO NW MO BY MON MRNG.  PLENTY OF BNDRYS
AHD OF FEATURE PER RAMSDIS AND LCL PCPLOT.  CNVTVN XPCD AHD AND ALG
MAIN BNDRY WITH TRAING OF CELLS.

CURRENT ADAP AND MAPS CONT TO PINPOINT NE KS WITH STG MSTR CNVGNC AND
THETA ADVCN...WHERE TRW RPDLY DVLPG.  XPC MAIN DVLPMT SWD THRU REST OF
AFTN ALG MSTR CNVGNC AXIS...WITH AREA SHIFTG EWD THRU CWA PER NGM FCST
OF 850 THETA-E RDG AXIS BY MON AFTN.

PAST 24HR PCP AMNTS GEN IN 1 INCH RNG FM 1ST GO ARND...WITH LCL AMNTS
OF 2-3 INCHES IN NW CORNER OF CWA FM WORTH MO TO ATCHISON KS COUNTIES.
PER DISCUSSION WITH STL...FFA FOR ENTR CWA IN LN TNGT...SPCLY NW WHERE
3HR FFG FM 1.5 TO 2 INCHES.

WL BROADBRUSH 3RD/4TH PD WRK ZNS WITH AREA IN CYCLNC FLOW AS MID/UPR
LVL LOW LIFTS INTO WI.

MCI EB 68/79 64/84 +422

DJV

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 1:09 PM CDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 7:16 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXClinton44 min
Jun 16, 7:16 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXClinton29 min
Jun 16, 7:46 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXCaldwell, Clinton44 min
Jun 16, 8:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXBuchanan, Clinton116 min
Jun 16, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBuchanan29 min
Jun 16, 8:32 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXCaldwell, Clinton58 min
Jun 16, 9:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXRay39 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.