Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1996, 6:08 AM CDT for Andrew County, Holt County, Nodaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 52 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 1996, 6:08 AM CDT (11:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1996, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Andrew County, MO, Holt County, MO, Nodaway County, MO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 6:30 AM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Fillmore, MO | |
| May 8, 6:45 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Guilford, MO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 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
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, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 2:20 AM CDT, 3 hours 48 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
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 8, 6:08 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
609 AM CDT WED MAY 08 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTYJ LOCATION....
0535 AM TRENTON MO 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/08/96 GRUNDY REPORTED BY RADIO
STATIONThe 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, 2:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clinton, DeKalb | 45 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, 6:21 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
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.