Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1996, 7:58 AM CDT for Platte County, Missouri; Leavenworth County, Wyandotte County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report 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, 7:58 AM CDT (12:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1996, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Leavenworth County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Platte County, MO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 8:11 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 47 | Platte City, 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 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 2533 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 572 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 6.6
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, 5 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 2:20 AM CDT, 5 hours 38 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, 1 hour 50 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
STATIONSpecial weather statement, May 8, 6:42 AM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-091200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...DELAYED TRANSMISSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 645 AM CDT WED MAY 8 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER IN EFFECT FOR NORTH AND NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL NOON... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTH THIRD OF MISSOURI TODAY... FORECAST...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING FOR WINDS AND HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE NORTH THIRD OF MISSOURI THIS MORNING...MAINLY NORTH OF A ST. JOSEPH...WARRENSBURG...BOONEVILLE LINE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS THIS MORNING...WITH FLASH FLOODING LIKELY TO OCCUR MAINLY NORTH OF A ST. JOSEPH TO MACON LINE. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DIMINISH DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING...BUT RE-DEVELOP TONIGHT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL...MAINLY NORTH OF A ST. JOSEPH TO MACON LINE. HEAVY...POTENTIAL FLOODING RAINS MAY ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. DISCUSSION...A LARGE COMPLEX OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST-SOUTHEAST THIS MORNING ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING ALONG AN UPPER LEVEL BOUNDARY...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. THE UPPER LEVEL BOUNDARY WILL GRADUALLY MOVE NORTH DURING THE DAY AND EVENING...MOVING THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND FLOODING SLIGHTLY TO THE NORTH WHEN THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN RE-DEVELOP TONIGHT...MAINLY AFTER 10 PM. SMITH
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, 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, 6:08 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, 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 Kansas, 1996Severe 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.