Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1996, 7:05 PM CDT for Johnson County, Wyandotte County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 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
- Jul 20, 1996, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 1996, 7:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Johnson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 3392 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1402 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 20, 3:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 3:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 338 PM CDT SAT JUL 20 1996 SHORT TERM PROBLEM WL BE TRW RDVLPMT LT THIS AFTN INTO TNGT AS FNTL BNDRY RMNS NRLY E CNTRL KS INTO CNTRL MO WITH MID/UPR LEVEL VORT MOVG INTO WRN ARND 06Z...THEN THRU RMNDR OF CWA SUN MRNG. MEANWHILE...LGT TO MDT RW/TRW CONTG VCNTY OF ELEVATD BNDRY IN FAR NRN MO. LATEST ADAP SHOWG MSTR CNVGNC MAX IN NE KS WITH AXIS EXTG FM NRN MO SWWD INTO S CNTRL KS. XPC RPD DVLPMT IN ERN KS\WRN MO BY ERY EVE... WITH ACTVTY MOVG EWD AND ENDG BHND VORT. FFG GEN IN THE 2.5-3.5 RNG WITH HIER AMNTS IN SW PART OF CWA. RNFALL AMNTS SINCE 12Z IN FAR N FM ARND .5 MOST AREAS TO 1.5 IN ATCHISON COUNTY MO. PER DISSCUSION WITH STL...WL INCLUDE ENTR CWA IN FFA TNGT...THO KS PORTIONS OF KC METRO AREA INTO SW CWA BORDERLINE. BNDRY LIFTS NE OUT OF AREA SUN INTO SUN EVE WITH ANOTHER CDFNT APPCHG NW MO BY MON MRNG...MOVG THRU AREA ON MON. WL ADD SCT POPS FAR NW LT SUN NGT AND OVR ENTR CWA MON. MCI BB 071/087 070/087 067 7-13 DJV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 10:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Clay | 4 hr |
| Jul 20, 10:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 4 hr |
| Jul 20, 11:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Ray | 4 hr |
| Jul 20, 11:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson | 4 hr |
| Jul 20, 11:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Pettis | 4 hr |
| Jul 21, 2:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Pettis | 3 hr |
| Jul 21, 2:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Pettis | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.