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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Kansas City, MO

July 19, 1996Jackson County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1996, 8:38 PM CDT for Jackson County, Missouri. It was in force for 37 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
Jul 19, 1996, 8:38 PM CDT (01:38 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 1996, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Jackson County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:41 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 19, 8:45 PM CDTThunderstorm WindBlue Springs, 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 Jul 19, 3:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 3:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
337 PM CDT FRI JUL 19 1996

SAGG SFC BNDRY ALG WITH MID/UPR LOW RIDING THRU MEAN RDG ACRS CNTRL
PLAINS TO FINALLY PROVIDE SOME RELIEF FM HEAT ALG WITH CHC OF PCP
ACRS CWA.  CNVTVN FIRG AND TRAING THIS AFTN VCNTY OF FNT FM SRN NEB
TO SRN IA INTO NE MO.  TRW IN CWA THIS AFTN LIMITED TO IRK AREA VCNTY
OF BNDRY ALG WITH COOLR MID LEVEL TEMPS WHILE REST OF CWA RMNS CAPPED.

MODELS SAG BNDRY SWD THRU ALL BUT XTRM SW PART OF CWA OVRNGHT...THEN
QSTNRY BFR LIFTG NE AS WRMFNT ON SUN.  UPR SYS PROGGED TO DRIFT SLOLY
EWD INTO ERN KS ON SAT...THEN THRU MO SAT NGT INTO SUN.  MAIN CONCERN
WL BE HVY RAIN WITH WK WND FIELDS IN TROPICAL AMS TNGT INTO SAT.

PER DISCUSSIONS WITH ADJACENT WSFOS...WL HOLD OFF ON FFA IN NW MO TNGT
AS FFG IN THE 4-4.5 RNG BUT MENTION HVY RN LKLY.  WL KEEP POPS IN HI
SCT TO LKLY CATEGORY OVR ENTIRE CWA THRU SAT...THEN GRADUALLY DCR INTO
SUN.  FWC POPS OK...TEMPS A LTL LOW.

MCI TB 74/88 72/90 73 4753

DJV

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 19, 8:13 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPlatte44 min
Jul 20, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay44 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.