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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 8, 1996Clinton County, DeKalb County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1996, 2:50 AM CDT for Clinton County, DeKalb County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 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 8, 1996, 2:50 AM CDT (07:50 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 1996, 3:35 AM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Clinton County, MO, DeKalb County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 91 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -293 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 618 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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 8, 2:20 AM CDT, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 2:20 AM CDT, 30 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
220 AM CDT WED MAY 8 1996

STG/PSBLY SVR CNVCTN JUST STARTING TO POP ALONG IA/NE/MO BORDER.
OTR PCPN IN AREA ALSO INCR IN INTENSITY. AVN FASTEST WITH MCS
MOTION...WITH NGM SLOWER AND ETA SLOWEST OF ALL. LLVL JET INCRG AS
ADVERTISED...BUT NOT AS CNVRGNT AS XPTCD. WRM 7H TMPS ALSO SEEM TO
BE PLAYING A PART IN CNVCTN INHIBITION.

ERY INDICATIONS ARE THAT THIS ROUND OF TRW SHUD STAY N OF AREAS HIT
YDAY AND THE DAY BEFORE /...AND THE DAY BEFORE...AND.../ SO FF
THREAT ISNT AS GREAT AS IT COULD BE. FFA STILL QUITE RSNBL.

BY THIS AFTN THE WRMFNT SHUD BE N OF FA...ALLOWING THICK SOUPY AIR
INTO THE RGN. WITH HI PROGD CAPES AND STG LLVL SHR WE MAY ACTUALLY
GET DAYLIGHT SVR CNVCTN. WL HAVE TO WATCH FOR LLVL MSTR INFLOW THIS
AM AND SEE HOW MUCH EFFECT THIS MORNINGS CNVCTN HAS ON WRMFNT MVMT.

GUID TEMPS MAY BE A BIT UNDERDONE TDY...BUT GVN RECENT TREND WL NOT
STRAY TOO FAR.

MCI EB 82/65 55

JHV

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard	44 min
May 7, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon	40 min
May 8, 5:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy	62 min
May 8, 6:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt, Nodaway	4 hr
May 8, 6:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Holt, Nodaway	52 min
May 8, 6:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Daviess, Grundy	6 hr
May 8, 6:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry	48 min
May 8, 6:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	DeKalb	55 min
May 8, 6:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Sullivan	6 hr
May 8, 7:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess	57 min
May 8, 7:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Linn, Livingston	6 hr
May 8, 7:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn, Sullivan	49 min
May 8, 7:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	62 min
May 8, 8:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair, Linn, Macon, Sullivan	60 min
May 8, 8:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Macon	5 hr
May 8, 8:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	68 min
May 8, 8:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay	68 min
May 8, 8:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette	67 min
May 8, 6:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1996 Every 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.