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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 200, NWS Kansas City, MO

September 23, 1996Platte County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 23, 1996, 4:44 AM CDT for Platte County, Missouri. It was in force for 46 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: Sep 23, 1996, 4:44 AM CDT (09:44 UTC)
Expired: Sep 23, 1996, 5:30 AM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Platte County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Sep 23, 2:10 AM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 23, 2:10 AM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
210 AM CDT MON SEP 23 1996

WATCH 1053 IN EFFECT UNTIL 7AM. LTST ANALYSIS SHOWS 8H JET
INTERSECTING SFC WMFNT NR STJ WITH STG MSTR ADVCTN ALONG THETAE
RIDGE OVR AREA. CRNT CNVCTN SEEMS TO BE FIRING ALONG IMPINGMENT OF
SFC TROF WITH 8H BOUNDARY. 00Z GRIDS SHOW STG UPRLVL DVRG AIDING
DVLPMNT...AND COOLER MIDLVL AIR WL ALSO AID DESTABILIZATION.

MODELS SIMILAR IN CONCEPT BUT A LITTLE OFF IN TIMING. PREFER NGMS
SLOER SOLN...BRINGING SFC FNT THROUGH THE FA LT MON AFTN. MAIN
EFFECT OF THIS WL BE TO REMOVE TIMING OF SHRA/TSRA WRN ZONES.
AIRMASS SHOULD HAVE AMPLE TIME TO DESTABILIZE ONCE AGAIN AFTER
CNVCTN MOVES THRU THIS AM...AND WITH 7H WV AND SFC BOUNDARY STILL
TO OUR WEST DYNAMICS SHOULD BE IN PLACE FOR ANOTHER RD LT THIS AFTN.

REST OF GOING FCST LUKS XCLNT. FWC TEMPS THRU PD SEEM TOO WARM...SO
WL TREND CLOSER TO COOLER FAN.

MCI TB 72/49 68/49 63 0562-

JHV

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 23, 8:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass	48 min
Sep 23, 9:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1996 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.