Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 1996, 5:47 AM CDT for Cooper County, Missouri. It was in force for 78 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
- May 4, 1996, 5:47 AM CDT (10:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 1996, 7:05 AM CDT
- In force
- 78 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 10:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1494 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1117 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 299 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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 May 4, 2:06 AM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 4, 2:06 AM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 205 AM CDT SAT MAY 4 1996 WILL ISSUE FCST THOUGHTS ERLY THIS AM AS WE GET READY FOR NEXT ROUND OF SVR WX DURING THE NEXT FEW HRS... TSTM COMPLEX OVR CNTL KS ALG AND JUST N OF FNTL BNDRY BEING FUELED BY SHRT WV AT H7 AND H5...STG LO LVL JET AND THETA-E ADVT. 06Z PROFILERS AT H8 SHOWING 50 KT WNDS OVR NRN OK AND SE KS. MODELS APPR TO HAVE DECENT HANDLE ON SHRT WV MVNG ACR KS. 88-D DATA SHWS TSTMS DVLP N OF STJ AREA BUT MAIN SHOW LKS LIKE IT WILL MOVE INTO CWA BET 0800Z-0830Z. AS TSTMS TRACK ALG 850-300 MB THICKNESS GRADIENT FAVORED AREA OF CWA FOR POTENTIALLY SVR WX THIS APPR TO BE S OF MO RVR. WITH FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE SHOWING RAINFALL THRESHOLDS IN 1-2 INCH RANGE AGN WOULD LIKE TO XTND FFW ACR SRN CWA. COULD BE SOME INTENSE R+ AS +15 DEW PTS AT H8 GET INJECTED INTO TSTMS. FOR FCST LIKE SIMILAR IDEA AS FRI AM...FM KC METRO EWRD TO MOBERLY AND POINTS S...LIKE SHWRS/TSTMS LIKELY THIS AM...SOME CONTAINING R+...THEN MAYBE 30 PCT POP THIS PM...POINTS TO N WOULD LIKE TO GO WITH 50 PCT CHC SHWRS TSTMS TDY. AS SHRT WV MVS EWRD TDY...LO LVL JET GETS PUSHED EWRD WITH IT TAKING FUEL SUPPLY FOR TSTMS AND R+. HOWEVER DO NOT WANT TO REMOVE POPS FOR TNT ATTM WITH STG W TO NW FLOW ALF. FOR SUN...MODELS ADVERTISING ENOUGH SFC RIDGING TO GET RID OF POPS. SUN SHOULD TURN OUT TO BE A DECENT DAY. AS FAR AS TEMPS GO PREFER COOLER FAN NUMBERS AGN TDYh WITH CLDS...PCPN AND ERLY FLOW. ALSO LIKE COOLER FAN FOR SUN AS GRIDDED DATA SHOWING LO LVL CAA. MCI 66/52 62 BODNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 3:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass | 42 min |
| May 4, 3:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 41 min |
| May 4, 4:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 63 min |
| May 4, 4:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson | 55 min |
| May 4, 4:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 55 min |
| May 4, 5:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry, Johnson, Lafayette | 62 min |
| May 4, 5:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 46 min |
| May 4, 5:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Ray | 55 min |
| May 4, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Linn, Miami | 57 min |
| May 4, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 57 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.