Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 21, 1996, 7:47 PM CDT for Caldwell County, Clinton County, Ray County, Missouri. It was in force for 58 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 21, 1996, 7:47 PM CDT (00:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 1996, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Caldwell County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Ray County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:47 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1732 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 89 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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 Apr 21, 3:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 21, 3:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 325 PM CDT SUN APR 21 1996 TOR WATCH #214 JUST ISSUED. PRIMARY CONCERN WILL BE SVR PTNL THIS EVE. AS SUGD BY YDAS AVN RUN APCHG CDFNT AWAITG SHRTWV EJECTING FM SRN RCKYS SO COMG IN SLOER. LTST WV IMAGERY SHOWS SHRTWV ENTERING WRN NM WITH PSBL JET STREAK MOVG ACRS THE TX/OK PNHDLS. MAY BE SEEING WRMFNT REFORM ACRS SE KS AND SRN MO AS DWPTS HV JUMPED INTO THE LOW/MID 50S THERE. DEEPER MSTR FTHR S ACRS SRN HLVS OF OK/AR WHERE MAIN WRMFNT LOCATED AND ADAP SHOWS -10 LIS OVR SRN OK. STG CNVTN HAS DLVPD RPDLY ACRS NC/NE OK IN RGN OF GTST DSTBLZN. GTST PRES FALL CHG PER ADAP SEEN OVR E CNTRL KS/W CNTRL MO SUGG WRMFNT WILL CONT NWD AND ALLOW DEEPER MSTR/INSTBY TO MOV INTO SRN HLF CWA THIS EVE. WILL FOLLOW SCENERIO OF CNVTN SPREADING NEWD AS JET STREAK LIFTS NEWD. ACTVTY OVR FA MAY WAIT TILL CDFNT ARRIVAL ARND SUNSET. EXPCG FROPA ARND 05Z AT MCI. GRIDDED DATA FCST LRG UVV MAX ACRS W CNTRL MO BY 06Z MOVG NEWD ACRS REST OF FA AS CDFNT CONTS E. HIEST POPS OVR SRN AND ERN CNTYS WHERE LLVL MSTR TO BE GRTST. SVR THREAT APRS TO BE CONFINED TO MAINLY S OF MO RVR WHERE WRMFNT/CDFNT ARE EXPCD TO INTERSECT. COOLER/DRIER AIR ON TAP FOR MON. SHUD STAY DRY DESPITE WK SHRTWV MOVG INTO NW MO BY 00Z TUE. AMS TOO STBL/DRY TO SUPPORT MENTION OF LOW POPS. DCRSG CLDS W TO E IN THE AFTN. AFTN SUNSHINE SHUD HELP TEMPS RECOVER SOME. GUID TEMPS MAY BE A TAD WRM MON OTRW FOLLOWED. MCI 045/059 51 JULY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Platte | 49 min |
| Apr 21, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 49 min |
| Apr 21, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 62 min |
| Apr 21, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Howard, Randolph | 61 min |
| Apr 21, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon | 44 min |
| Apr 21, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 59 min |
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.