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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1996, 11:42 PM CDT for Atchison County, Missouri. It was in force for 63 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 22, 1996, 11:42 PM CDT (04:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1996, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 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 04:45 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, 4.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1697 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 501 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMCI 230442
SVRMCI
MOC005-230545-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
1142 PM CDT WED MAY 22 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
ATCHISON COUNTY - NORTHWEST MISSOURI
* UNTIL 1245 AM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
FAIRFAX
TARKIO
ROCKPORT
* AT 1140 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 NORTHEAST OF
TARKIO OR NEAR PHELPS CITY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR ROCKPORT AT 1150 PM...NEAR FAIRFAX AND
TARKIO AT 1215 PM. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HAIL ONE INCH OR
LARGE AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH OR HIGHER.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FOR
YOUR SAFETY...MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
MITCHELLWhat 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 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 3:02 PM CDT, 8 hours 40 minutes 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, 50 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, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt | 42 min |
| May 22, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Worth | 36 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 |
Nearby
Severe 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.