Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1996, 9:34 PM CDT for Atchison County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 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, 9:34 PM CDT (02:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Atchison County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:35 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 1091 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 739 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
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, 3:12 PM CDT, 6 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 3:12 PM CDT, 6 hours 22 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 305 PM CDT WED MAY 8 1996 HERE WE GO AGAIN...ANOTHER EVENING/NGT WITH A LRG MCS ONCE AGN EXPCD. QUESTION IS M
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 8, 3:35 PM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
335 PM CDT WED MAY 8 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0915 PM 2 SE NEW FRANKLIN MO .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/96 HOWARD
1000 PM 4 E NEW CAMBRIA MO .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/96 MACON
1015 PM CALLAO MO .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/96 MACON
0300 AM 1 NW HEMPLE MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/08/96 CLINTON
0300 AM 8 SE ST JOSEPH MO .75 INCH HAIL
05/08/96 BUCHANAN
0310 AM 4 W OSBORN MO 1.25 INCH HAIL
05/08/96 DE KALB
0550 AM MARYVILLE MO .75 INCH HAIL
05/08/96 NODAWAY
0615 AM 3 N OREGON MO .75 INCH HAIL
05/08/96 HOLT
0620 AM TRENTON MO FLOODING
05/08/96 GRUNDY STREET FLOODING IN TRENTON.
BASEMENTS FLOODED. ROUTE Y
EAST OF TOWN FLOODED BY
MUDDY CREEK
0623 AM MARYVILLE MO FLOODING
05/08/96 NODAWAY STREET FLOODING. WATER
OVER SEVERAL RURAL ROADS
0630 AM 3 E OREGON MO FLOODING
05/08/96 HOLT TERRACES IN FIELD OVERTOPPED
BY HEAVY RAIN. WASHED OUT
TERRACE AND ALL CORN ENDED UP
IN A PILE AT BOTTOM OF HILL
0636 AM FILLMORE MO .88 INCH HAIL
05/08/96 ANDREW
0640 AM KING CITY MO .75 INCH HAIL
05/08/96 GENTRY
0645 AM GUILFORD MO .75 INCH HAIL
05/08/96 NODAWAY
0715 AM 3 N ALTAMONT MO .75 INCH HAIL
05/08/96 DAVIESS
0755 AM CUMMINGS KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/08/96 ATCHISON
0800 AM 3 E COFFEY MO FLOODING
05/08/96 DAVIESS WATER OVER ROUTE B
0811 AM PLATTE CITY MO WIND GUSTS ESTIMATED OVER
05/08/96 PLATTE 50 MPH BY HAM SPOTTER
0825 AM MACON MO FLOODING
05/08/96 MACON WATER OVER HIGHWAY 36
0830 AM LIBERTY MO WIND DAMAGE
05/08/96 CLAY TREES DOWNED BY HIGH WINDS
0832 AM MILAN MO FLOODING
05/08/96 SULLIVAN STREET FLOODING IN MILAN
0835 AM WEATHERBY LAKE MO WIND DAMAGE
05/08/96 PLATTE POWER LINES DOWN
0855 AM GRAIN VALLEY MO WIND DAMAGE
05/08/96 JACKSON POWER LINES DOWN
0900 AM BATES CITY MO WIND DAMAGE
05/08/96 LAFAYETTE POWER LINES DOWN
0900 AM LEXINGTON MO WIND DAMAGE
05/08/96 LAFAYETTE LIMBS DOWN
0905 AM MACON MO .75 INCH HAIL
05/08/96 MACON
0908 AM 7 SW TRENTON MO FLOODING
05/08/96 GRUNDY RTE W CLOSED AT WOLF CREEK
0908 AM TRENTON MO FLOODING
05/08/96 GRUNDY STREET AND BASEMENT FLOODING
CONTINUES. ROUTE N CLOSED
EAST OF TRENTON
0930 AM 6 N NEW BOSTON MO .75 INCH HAIL
05/08/96 LINN
0950 AM MILAN MO FLOODING
05/08/96 SULLIVAN MANY RURAL ROADS FLOODED.
WATER OVER HIGHWAY 6
1034 AM 2 NW PURDIN MO FLOODING
05/08/96 LINN LOCUST CREEK OUT OF BANKS
FLOODING FIELDS
1130 AM HUMPHREYS MO FLOODING
05/08/96 SULLIVAN HIGHWAY 6 CLOSED AT MUDDY CK
1130 AM TRENTON MO FLOODING
05/08/96 GRUNDY SANDBAGGING IN TOWN. 5.9
INCHES OF RAIN
1130 AM ALL OVER COUNTY MO FLOODING
05/08/96 GRUNDY MANY COUNTY ROADS CLOSED...
RT W SOUTHWEST OF TRENTON
RT Y EAST OF TRENTON
RT E NORTH OF LAREDO
WELVAERTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 56 min |
| May 8, 10:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison | 4 hr |
| May 8, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 77 min |
| May 8, 11:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Atchison | 59 min |
| May 8, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 57 min |
| May 9, 7:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison | 5 hr |
| May 9, 9:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 46 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.