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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1996, 10:25 PM CDT for Atchison County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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 23, 1996, 10:25 PM CDT (03:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1996, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Atchison County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 10:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Cummings, KS |
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 nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 2670 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
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 23, 2:03 PM CDT, 8 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 2:03 PM CDT, 8 hours 22 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 150 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 1996 FCST CHALLENGES CONTINUE TO BE TSTM CHCS. TRW FIRING ALG IA BDR IN VCNTY OF WRMFNT. SOUTH OF FNT...AIR MASS QUITE UNSTABLE WITH LIS AROUND -10 AND CAPE AROUND 4000 J/KG. MAY SEE OTHER WDLY SCT TRW FIRE ACR AREA WITH LTL OR NO CAP AND HI INSTBLTY. MOST TRW THIS EVE IS XPCTD TO BE ACR NRN ZONES IN STGR MID LVL WIND AND VCNTY OF BOUNDARIES. LAST COUPLE OF DAYS MDLS HAVE BEEN LESS VIGOUROUS WITH FNT ENTERING AREA TNGT AND MON. MDLS VARY HOW DEEP FNT TO MAKE IT INTO MO...BUT WITH UPR RDG BUILDING BACK INTO PLAINS...DONT XPCT FNT TO MAKE IT NO FURTHER THAN MO RVR. TRW ALSO XPCTD ALG FNT IN SERN NEB THIS EVE. HAVE DOUBTS WHETHER ORGANIZED COMPLEX WL DEVELOP TNGT...AS GRIDDS SHOW LLJ WEAK WITH MID LVL FLO ALSO WEAKENING. HOWEVER...XPCT SCT RW/TRW TO SAG SE OVERNGT...PSBLY REACHING IRK TO MCI LN BY 12Z MON. TRW AGAIN PSBL MON AFTN IN VICINTY OF FNT WITH LTL OR NO CAP. FNT TO RETREAT INTO IA ON MON AS UPR RDG BUILDS NWD INTO PLAINS. WL NOT MENTION POPS ON MON AS TRW XPCT TO BE ISOLD/WDLY SCT. LTL COOLING XPCTD WITH FROPA WITH GUID TEMPS WITHIN A FEW DEGREES. M CI 72/89 71/91 3432 DB
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 23, 8:14 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 9:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew | 11 hr |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.