Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1996, 4:44 AM CDT for Atchison County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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 10, 1996, 4:44 AM CDT (09:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1996, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 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 09:43 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 10, 4:45 AM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Atchison, KS |
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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 2240 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1083 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 9.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMCI 100945
SVRMCI
KSC005-101015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
444 AM CDT FRI MAY 10 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
ATCHISON COUNTY - NORTHEAST KANSAS
* UNTIL 515 AM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
LANCASTER
ATCHISON
CUMMINGS
* AT 440 AM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED NEAR
LANCASTER MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* THE STORM <WILL BE AT ATCHISON AT 450 AM. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE
HAIL TO 1 INCH AND WINDS TO 60 MPH.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FOR YOUR
SAFETY...MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
PCWhat 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 10, 3:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 10, 3:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 329 AM CDT FRI MAY 10 1996 MAIN FCST CHALLENGES INCLUDE RW/TRW COVERAGE AND INTENSITY AND RELATED QPF CONCERNS. CONVECTION THAT TRIED TO DVLP AROUND 04Z IN XTRM NERN KS GIVES AN IDEA OF WHAT TYPE OF ATMOS WE ARE DEALING WITH. CELLS WENT UP INITIALLY BUT HAD TROUBLE SURVIVING 100 J/KG CIN AND +12 700 MB TEMPS BASED OFF 00Z TOP SNDG. 00Z ETA INITIALIZED 700 MB TEMPS WERE ENTIRELY TOO COOL...BY AS MUCH AS 4 DEG. THIS MAKES PARTS OF ETA FCST DIFFICULT TO ACCEPT. UNFORTUNATELY...HAD TROUBLE RETRIEVING NGM AND AVN SO HAVE LITTLE ELSE TO GO ON. AT ANY RATE...IT'S GOING TO TAKE SOME DYNAMIC COOLING OF MID LEVEL TEMPS AND/OR FRONTAL LIFT TO REALLY GET THINGS GOING. LO AND BEHOLD...NATURE GIVES A FAIRLY STG SFC FRONT. CURRENT 88D LOOP SHOWS RW/TRW DVLPG OVER NE KS ALG/JUST BEHIND SFC FRONT OR OUTFLOW BNDRY LOCATED FM P35 TO JUST N OF MCI TO NR TOP. BNDRY WAS ON THE MOVE EARLIER TNGT BUT HAS SINCE SLOWED AND CONVECTION NOW BEGINNING TO FIRE ALG IT. WUD XPCT THIS TREND TO CONTINUE WITH EVENT TURNING INTO MORE OF A RAIN EVENT THAN SVR THRT. SOME DISCUSSION AROUND HERE AS TO NEED FOR CONTINUING FLASH FLOOD WATCH. FOCUS FOR HVST R SHD BE A BIT SOUTH OF CWA...BUT WITH VERY LOW FFG VALUES...INITIALLY HIGH PW'S AND FRONTAL/SYNOPTIC SCALE LIFTING THROUGH AT LEAST 18Z WILL OPT TO KEEP WATCH GOING FOR TODAY. DAY SHIFT MAY HAVE TO TRIM BACK WATCH...ESPCLY IN NW...BUT HATE TO CANCEL WHOLE THING WITH EXPECTED RW/TRW. RW/TRW TO FINALLY SHUT OFF EARLY THIS EVE AFT PASSAGE OF UPPER WAVE. CONSIDERABLY COLDER AIR ON THE WAY BHND FRONT SO HIGHS TO OCCUR THIS AM...WITH FALLING TEMPS THROUGH@OUT MUCH OF DAY. MCI 074/044 82 JM
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 10, 1:41 AM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
KSZ025-057-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>032-037-038-043- 100715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 140 AM CDT FRI MAY 10 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH 336 CANCELLED FOR MOST OF NORTHERN MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS... TORNADO WATCH 336 THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE COUNTIES OF ATCHISON...HOLT...BUCHANAN...PLATTE...CLAY... JACKSON...CASS...CLINTON...DEKALB...NODAWAY...ANDREW... WORTH...GENTRY...WORTH...HARRISON...DAVIESS...CALDWELL...RAY... LAFAYETTE...MERCER...GRUNDY...LIVINGSTON...CARROLL...PUTNAM... SULLIVAN...LINN...CHARITON...SCHUYLER...ADAIR AND MACON OF NORTHERN MISSOURI AND ATCHISON...LEAVENWORTH...WYANDOT(TE... JOHNSON...MIAMI AND DONIPHAN COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST KANSAS. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE THROUGH THE REST OF THE EARLY MORNING HOURS AND FOR MUCH OF FRIDAY...BUT THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED. JM
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.