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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 22, 1996Atchison County, Holt County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1996, 11:03 PM CDT for Atchison County, Holt County, Missouri. It was in force for 42 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 22, 1996, 11:03 PM CDT (04:03 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 1996, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Atchison County, MO, Holt County, MO

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 22, 11:30 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Corning, MO
May 22, 11:30 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Tarkio, 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 472 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -186 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1275 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 302 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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 22, 3:02 PM CDT, 8 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 3:02 PM CDT, 8 hours 1 minute before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED DATE!!
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
254 PM CDT WED MAY 22 1996

THUNDERSTORMS ARE MAIN CONCERN TONITE AND EARLY THUR...THEN AGAIN
THUR NITE AND FRI.  SOME COULD BE SVR...AND MANY WILL HAVE R++.
NAT'L DISCNS AND PERUSIAL OF GRIDDED DATA ALL POINT TO HVY RAIN
EVENT TONITE ACRS NE/IA/NRN MO...AND CAN'T FIND REASONS TO ARGUE.
DIFUSE WRM FNT MOVG N ACRS WRN KS TO NC OK IN RESPONSE TO
CYCLOGENESIS
TAKING PLACE IN LEE OF ROCKIES AS UPR WV CRASHES ROCKIES.  WILL LOOK
FOR THIS FNT TO MOVE N OR FIZZLE AND REFORM OVR FAR NRN KS/NRN MO BY
TONITE.  JUICY AMS S OF BDRY WITH DWPTS MID/UPR 60S.  SOME 70S
ALREADY OVR OK.  MDLS PROG LLJ IN EXCESS OF 50 KTS TONITE...AND MCS
MACROS ON GRIDDED FIELDS POINT TO CTRL NEB FOR DVLPT THIS EVE...WITH
ACTIVITY ROLLING INTO MO PROBLY AFT MID.  COULD BE SOME SVR WITH THIS
COMPLEX...AND WITH K INDEX VALUES WELL INTO 30S...HVY RAINS PSBL.
RELATIVELY LOW FF GUID NUMBERS...SO WILL FAVOR FF WATCH FOR NRN MO N
OF A STJ-IRK LINE.

SOME CRNT RW OVR NC KS NOT TOO EXCITING...AND EXPECT TO FIZZLE AS
SUN DISAPPEARS.  FOR FCST WORDING...MAY WANT TO MENTION "MAINLY AFT
MID" AS THAT THE LIKELY TIME FOR BEST RAINFALL.  WITH WRM FNT AND
JUICY DWPTS POISED TO MOVE INTO AREA...DON'T THINK LOWS WILL FALL
A WHOLE LOT.  GUID GENLY IN MID 60S...AND THINK THIS REASONABLE.  NOT
SURE NRN MO WILL MAKE LOW 60S.  TEMPS TMRW DEPENDANT ON JUST HOW
MANY CLDS HANG ARND.  THINK MID 80S A GOOD COMPROMISE AS WE WILL
STAY IN WRM SECTOR.

LOOKS LIKE A REPEAT PERFORMANCE FOR THURS NITE/FRI AS ANOTHER STRNGR
WV EJECTS OUT INTO PLNS...AND STNRY BDRY HANGING ARND NRN KS/NRN MO
BRDRS.

MCI  66/85  73

WELVAERT

...NOT SURE WHAT HAPPENED TO DATE ON LAST TRANSMISSION!!

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 22, 10:52 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

MOZ002-230425-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
1052 PM CDT WED MAY 22 1996

ONE INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH OCCURRED AROUND 1030 PM
ABOUT 2 MILES N\ORTH OF MARYVILLE.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR NODAWAY COUNTY UNTIL
11 PM.

MJM

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway	28 min
May 22, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Worth	36 min
May 22, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	63 min
May 23, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	60 min
May 23, 12:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Nodaway	63 min
May 23, 1:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	44 min
May 23, 1:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry	46 min
May 23, 2:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Andrew	9 hr

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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.