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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 24, 1996Linn County, Sullivan County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 12:30 PM CDT for Linn County, Sullivan County, Missouri. It was in force for 60 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, 12:30 PM CDT (17:30 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1996, 1:30 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Linn County, MO, Sullivan County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:30 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 246 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 241729
SVRMCI
MOC115-211-241815-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
1230 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  LINN COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
  SULLIVAN COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 130 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    NEW BOSTON
    NORTH SALEM
    WINIGAN

* AT 1226 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR NEW BOSTON
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.  .

* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR NORTH SALEM AT 1235 PM AND WINIGAN BY 1245
  PM.   THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER AND
  WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH..

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR OTHER
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY.


WELVAERT

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 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 10:42 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 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, 12:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton	64 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

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.