Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 1996, 1:55 PM CDT for Henry County, Johnson County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 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
- Apr 14, 1996, 1:55 PM CDT (18:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 1996, 2:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Henry County, MO, Johnson County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 185 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -501 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1228 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 422 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 602 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 Apr 14, 3:00 AM CDT, 10 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 3:00 AM CDT, 10 hours 55 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 300 AM CDT SUN APR 14 1996 MODELS IN GOOD AGRMT MOVG SFC LOW CURRENTLY IN SW KS INTO SW MO BY 00Z MON...THEN EJECTG SYS NE INTO WI BY 00Z TUE. GIVEN STGST PRES FALLS FM S CNTRL KS INTO SW MO AND UPR JET PROGS...MOVMT LOOKS ON TRACK. STST DYNAMICS\UVV SLATED FOR 12-24HR TIME FRAME AS SHRTWV TROF ROTATG ARND UPR SYS MOVS THRU CWA. OVRALL...LOOKS LIKE WDSPRD R- SETTG UP TDA WITH EMBEDDED CNVTVN... THEN WRAP ARND AFFCTG CWA TNGT AS SYS EJECTS TO NE. CURRENT 88D INDCG TRW DVLPG IN ERN KS ALG NOSE OF LLJ. LLJ PROGGED TO MOV EWD BY 18Z INTO CNTRL MO...E CNTRL MO BY 00Z MON. THREAT OF ELEVATED CNVTVN TO MNLY BE THIS AM WITH PSBLTY OF SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WNDS...WITH MAIN THREAT OF SVR RMNG JUST S OF CWA. PROBLEM TNGT WL BE THREAT OF SNOW AS COLD AIR WRAPS ARND LOW WITH 850 TEMPS OF -2 TO -4 MOVG INTO CWA. GUIDANCE TEMPS OF 35-40 APR LTL HI ,GIVEN EVAP COOLG. XPC WET SNOW MNLY NW OF A MACON TO BUTLER LINE LATE SUN NGT...LTL IF ANY ACCUMLN. MCI 049/033 ++ DJV
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 12:59 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-151200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 100 PM CDT SUN APR 14 1996 ...RAIN ALONG WITH THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON... ...WET SNOW POSSIBLE TONIGHT... FORECAST...OCCASIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. ALTHOUGH THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE...A FEW STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH...MAINLY SOUTH OF THE MISSOURI RIVER. THE RAIN MAY MIX WITH OR CHANGE TO SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT MAINLY NORTHWEST OF A MACON TO BUTLER LINE. DISCUSSION...A STORM SYSTEM LOCATED IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS WILL MOVE EAST INTO SOUTHWEST MISSOURI BY THIS EVENING...THEN INTO CENTRAL ILLINOIS OVERNIGHT. THE AIR MASS WILL BE MOIST AND SLIGHTLY UNSTABLE TODAY AHEAD OF THE STORM SYSTEM WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PREVAILING ACROSS THE AREA. HOWEVER...THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE AS THE AIR MASS IS EXPECTED TO BE ONLY MARGINALLY UNSTABLE. AS COLDER AIR DROPS INTO THE REGION TONIGHT...THE RAIN MAY MIX WITH OR CHANGE TO WET SNOW. DUE TO WARM GROUND TEMPERATURES...LITTLE IF ANY ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED. DB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 45 min |
| Apr 14, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 60 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.