Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 8, 1996Atchison County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1996, 10:43 PM CDT for Atchison County, Missouri. It was in force for 77 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, 10:43 PM CDT (03:43 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 1996, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 77 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Atchison County, MO

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:39 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 8, 11:25 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Highway 59, 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 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

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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, 3:12 PM CDT, 7 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 3:12 PM CDT, 7 hours 31 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

The 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, 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
May 8, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	56 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.