Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 12:21 PM CDT for Chariton County, Missouri. It was in force for 64 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 24, 1996, 12:21 PM CDT (17:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1996, 1:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chariton County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 1582 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -413 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 749 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 476 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 535 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 24, 10:42 AM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 10:42 AM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 1040 AM CDT FRI MAY 24 1996 WILL MAKE SOME SGFNT CHGS TO FAR NRN ZONES FOR SCT RW-/TRW- AND ALSO LOWER MAX TEMPS DUE TO WIDESPREAD ST OVR AREA. EXPC THIS CLD COVER TO LIFT BUT THERE WILL STILL BE PLENTY OF CLDNS. QSTNRY BNDRY WAS FTHR N YDA AND 3OI ONLY MADE IT TO 71. WILL KNOCK ABT 10 DEGREES OFF GOING FCST. STLT IMAGERY SHOWS APRNT VORT MAX MOVG NNE OUT OF N CNTRL TX. LOTS OF ACCAS SPREADING N ACRS ERN KS INTO NW MO. ISENTROPIC LIFT ACRS BNDRY AND WAA ALLOWING FOR CNVTN TO CONT DESPITE NORMAL DIURNAL LULL FOR CNVTN. MRNG 12HR ETA SHOWS CNVTV FEEDBACK TYPE VORT MAX OVR SE IA SO WILL HV TO WATCH FOR PSBL MCS DVLPG THIS AFTN ACRS NRN MO. TOP 12Z RAOB SHOWS PRONOUNCED CAP SO LOOKING AT ELEVATED CNVTN...MRNG H7 RAOB ANALYSIS SHOWS +12 ISOTHERM AS FAR E AS WRN MO. JULY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn, Sullivan | 60 min |
| May 24, 12:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Schuyler | 46 min |
| May 24, 12:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 47 min |
| May 24, 12:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Pettis | 57 min |
| May 24, 12:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll | 65 min |
| May 24, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Macon | 55 min |
| May 24, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton | 55 min |
| May 24, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 57 min |
| May 24, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 58 min |
| May 24, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 59 min |
| May 24, 2:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton | 56 min |
| May 24, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 56 min |
| May 24, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn, Macon | 77 min |
| May 24, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 50 min |
| May 24, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 59 min |
| May 24, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 61 min |
| May 24, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 56 min |
| May 24, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 61 min |
| May 24, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 73 min |
| May 24, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 74 min |
| May 24, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 79 min |
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.