Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 17, 1996, 8:53 PM CST for Atchison County, Doniphan County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 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
- Jan 17, 1996, 8:53 PM CST (02:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 17, 1996, 9:30 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 254 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 745 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 374 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 390 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 180254 RRA SVRMCI KSC005-043-180330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 853 PM CST WED JAN 17 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST KANSAS ...NORTHERN ATCHISON KS COUNTY...DONIPHAN COUNTY AT 849 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BETWEEN ARRINGTON AND EFFINGHAM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM PRODUCED THREE-QUARTER INCH HAIL DURING A TEN MINUTE PERIOD AROUND 845 PM. THIS STORM WILL MOVE NEAR THE COMMUNITES OF ATCHISON AND PURCELL...REACHING TROY IN DONIPHAN COUNTY BY 930 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. &
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 Jan 17, 2:34 PM CST, 6 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 17, 2:34 PM CST, 6 hours 19 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 200 PM CST WED JAN 17 1996 NUMEROUS FCST PRBLMS NEXT 24 HRS AS STG SFC LO AND UPR TROF MVS THRU CNTRL AND SRN PLAINS TNGT. AS PER MOIST IMAGERY...UPR TROF DIGGING INTO SRN ROCKIES WITH NUMEROUS SHRTWVS ROTATING THRU TROF. LEAD WAVE LIFTING NNE THRU WRN KS WITH STRONGEST WAVE IN NERN AZ. SFC LO MVG SLGTLY S OF E ACR WRN KS WITH MDLS RELATIVELY SIMILAR IN MVG SFC LO ACR WCNTRL/NWRN MO TNGT. H8 CIRCULATION AND ISENT LIFT WITH SYS TO BE WELL NORTH OF AREA WITH ONLY UPR DYNAMICS TO WORK WITH THRU THURS AM. SFC DWPTS HAVE CLIMBED INTO LOWER TO MID 50S THIS AFTN. GRIDDS INDICATE MARGINAL INSTBLY PRIOR TO FROPA...BUT WITH STG MCONV AND IMPRESSIVE UPR DYNAMICS...WL LIKELY SEE TRW AHD AND ESPECIALLY ALG FNT. AGREE WITH SELS THAT MOMENTUM TRANSFER OF STG WND FIELD MAY PRODUCE STG WNDS IN TRW. MAIN THREAT OF MARGINALLY SVR WNDS WL BE AROUND FROPA AT 06Z IN MKC. RAIN TO CHANGE TO SNOW BY AM...HOWEVER AMOUNTS LOOKING LIGHT AS BEST UVV BEFORE CHG OVR. H7-H3 QVEC CONV SUGGEST AMOUNTS IN 1-3 INCH RANGE IN MKC AREA WITH SLGTLY HIER AMOUNTS TO THE NORTH. TEMPS TO PLUNGE LATE TNGT AND THURS WITH VERY $STG NORTH WNDS RANGING FM 25 TO 35 WITH GUSTS TO 45. TEMPS TO PLUNGE TO NR 10 BY THURS EVENING WITH WIND CHILLS BETWEEN -25 TO -35. GUID LOOKS OK FOR TNGT AND THURS. MCI 21/21 +8 BEUSTERIEN
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 17, 5:31 PM CST, 3 hours 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
530 PM CDT TUE OCT 3 1995
...STORM REPORTS FOR THE AFTERNOON/EVENING OF 1/17/96
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1706 PM WESTON MO TREES DOWN IN THE WESTON
01/17/95 PLATTE STATE PARK
WELVAERTLocal storm report, Jan 17, 7:27 PM CST, 1 hour 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED..ADDITIONS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
727 PM CDT TUE OCT 3 1995
...STORM REPORTS FOR THE AFTERNOON/EVENING OF 1/17/96
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0506 PM WESTON MO WIND DAMAGE...TREES DOWN IN
01/17/95 PLATTE THE WESTON STATE PARK
0545 PM LEES SUMMIT MO WIND DAMAGE...TREES DOWN AT
01/17/95 JACKSON LONGVIEW LAKE
WELVAERTLocal storm report, Jan 17, 7:31 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
730 PM CDT TUE OCT 3 1995
...STORM REPORTS FOR THE AFTERNOON/EVENING OF 1/17/96
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0530 PM STILLWELL KS LIGHTNING STRUCK A HOME
01/17/96 JOHNSON AND CAUSED IT TO CATCH FIRE.
WELVAERTNearby
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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.