Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1996, 10:04 PM CDT for Leavenworth County, Kansas. 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
- May 6, 1996, 10:04 PM CDT (03:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1996, 10:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Leavenworth County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 500 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 435 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
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 6, 2:50 PM CDT, 7 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 2:50 PM CDT, 7 hours 14 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 250 PM CDT MON MAY 6 1996 CURRENT MCS EVENT SHOWING SIGNS OF WEAKENING ON SATELLITE AND FINALLLY STARTING TO MOVE MORE RAPIDLY EASTWARD. SCTD RW/TRW STILL IN ERN KS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME TOO STRONG AS THEY MOVE INTO THE WORKED OVER ATMOSPHERE LEFT BEHIND BY MCS CHUCK. NEXT SHOW SHOULD BE WITH MCS DEVELOPMENT OVERNIGHT. ONLY HAVE ETA AND AVN GRIDDED DATA TO PERUSE. ETA SHOWS THETAE RIDGE HOLDING INTO SC KS...WITH GOOD LOW LEVEL FLOW TO SET UP AS UPPER WAVE THAT SATELLITE CURRENTLY SHOWS IN UTAH APPROACHES AREA. SFC BOUNDARY REMAINS JUST TO SOUTH OF AREA AND H85 FRONT STAYS ACROSS CWA. MCS SHOULD BRING MORE HEAVY RAIN TO MUCH OF THE CWA. ALREADY SATURATED GROUND ACROSS SOUTHERN HALF OF CWA FOR LAST SEVERAL MCS EVENTS SET STAGE FOR FLASH FLOODING SO WATCH IS WARRANTED. EXPECT MCS (D...) TO STILL BE AFFECTING AREA IN THE MORNING...THEN WORKED OVER ATMOSPHERE WILL PROBABLY NOT RECOVER TO SUPPORT MUCH ACTIVITY TUESDAY AFTERNOON...SO WILL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL TUESDAY NIGHT WHEN EVEN BETTER MCS (E...) SCENARIO SETS UP FOR CWA WITH H85 WINDS PROGGED AT 50KTS INTO AREA BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. FWC GUIDANCE STARTING OFF TOO WARM WITH TEMPS SO WILL GO COLDER FOR LOWS TONIGHT. MCS ALSO WILL AFFECT HIGHS ON TUESDAY...SO THINK FWC TOO WARM AGAIN SO WILL STAY COOLER. MCI TT 51/68 76 PC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 9:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Linn, Livingston | 4 hr |
| May 6, 11:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Macon | 4 hr |
| May 7, 1:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Linn, Livingston | 3 hr |
| May 7, 2:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Macon | 2 hr |
| May 7, 8:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper | 3 hr |
| May 7, 10:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Pettis | 4 hr |
| May 7, 11:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 3 hr |
| May 7, 12:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Randolph | 3 hr |
| May 7, 12:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Linn | 118 min |
| May 7, 7:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 59 min |
| May 7, 8:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson | 4 hr |
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.