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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 6, 1996Carroll County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1996, 12:53 PM CDT for Carroll County, Missouri. It was in force for 52 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 6, 1996, 12:53 PM CDT (17:53 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 1996, 1:45 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Carroll County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:54 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 190 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 907 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 204 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 358 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 061753
SVRMCI
MOC033-061845-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
1253 PM CDT MON MAY 6 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  CARROLL COUNTY - CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 145 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    CARROLLTON
    BOSWORTH

* AT 1252 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING
  CARROLLTON MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.  

* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR CARROLLTON BY 1 PM AND NEAR BOSWORTH BY 130
  PM.   HAIL ONE INCH OR LARGER AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY.

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



BUpNTING

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 6, 2:52 AM CDT, 10 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 2:52 AM CDT, 10 hours 1 minute before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
250 AM CDT MON MAY 6 1996

FCST PROBLEM TODAY THE SAME AS IN PREVIOUS DAYS...AREAL COVERAGE OF
RW/TRW AND THE RESULTANT IMPLICATIONS FOR CLOUDS AND TEMPS.
PCGRIDDS ANALYSIS SHOWS STRONG LLVL FORCING OVER ENTIRE CWA THROUGH
THE PD AS SFC LOW OVR SRN OK AT 06/06Z WOBBLES ALONG THE STNRY
FRONT. WOULD EXPECT WDLY SCT RW- THIS AM...WITH MORE ORGANIZED WX
THIS AFTERNOON. THERE MAY WELL BE A BREAK BETWEEN 07/00Z AND 07/06Z
AS ENERGY IS DIVERTED INTO OUR NEXT BALL-O-RAIN...BUT AM
UNCOMFORTABLE TIMING THE PCPN.  BY 07/06Z ALL MODELS SHOW CLASSIC
MCS SIGNATURE...WITH RH AOA 70 PERCENT SOLID FROM
SFC-350MB...COINCIDING WITH ONSET OF STRONG LIFT ASSOC WITH SFC TROF.

WITH THIS IN MIND...THINK NUMEROUS AMBIENT BOUNDARIES WILL BE
SUFFICIENT FOR LKLY POPS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE
FA...ROUGHLY SOUTH OF THE THETA-E GRADIENT. FURTHER NORTH...ROUGHLY
NORTH OF A STJ-MACON LINE...PCPN WILL BE MORE WIDELY SCATTERED.
CATEGORICAL POPS SEEM TO BE IN ORDER TNT...WITH LEFTOVER SLOP INTO
TUE MORNING...MAINLY R-/L- THRU THE MORNING. AM SIMILARLY
UNCOMFORTABLE TIMING END OF PCPN TOMORROW.

AGREE WITH STL THAT FFA NOT NEEDED ATTM...BUT VERY LIKELY FOR
TNT...AND POSSIBLY FOR THIS PM. FFG ABOUT AS LOW AS IT CAN GO
ALREADY...AND LCL 2 OR 3 INCH AMTS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION.

WL UNDERCUT MOS TEMPS TODAY DUE TO MORE PESSIMISTIC FORECASTT. REST
OF PD LUKS REASONABLE ATTM.

MCI TW 63/54 6+

JHV

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 10:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	60 min
May 6, 10:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cass	4 hr
May 6, 12:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Livingston	55 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.