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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 14, 1996Cooper County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 1996, 4:55 PM CDT for Cooper County, Missouri. It was in force for 60 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
Apr 14, 1996, 4:55 PM CDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired
Apr 14, 1996, 5:55 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Cooper County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 233 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1996-04-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 44 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1996-04-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 422 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
44 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-501 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1228 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
422 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
602 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 142155
SVRMCI
MOC053-142255-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
455 PM CDT SUN APR 14 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  COOPER COUNTY - CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 555 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    BOONVILLE
    OTTERVILLE
    PILOT GROVE
    BUNCETON

* AT 453 PM RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10
  MILES SOUTH OF OTTERVILLE TO JUST EAST OF NELSON MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  30 MPH. .

* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR OTTERVILLE BY 510 PM AND PILOT GROVE BY 515
  PM.  THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE IN
  DIAMETER.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.  FOR YOUR
SAFETY...MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.


MANION/JULY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 14, 1:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHenry, Johnson45 min
Apr 14, 2:33 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXJohnson47 min
Apr 14, 3:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson45 min
Apr 14, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.