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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 5, 1996Grundy County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1996, 11:45 PM CDT for Grundy County, Missouri. It was in force for 50 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: Jun 5, 1996, 11:45 PM CDT (04:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1996, 12:35 AM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Grundy County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:49 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
Jun 5, 11:45 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Trenton, 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 3130 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 975 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 401 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 5.1
Supercell composite: 18.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 060443
TORMCI
MOC079-060535-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
1145 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  GRUNDY COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1235 AM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    TRENTON
    TINDALL
    SPICKARD
    LAREDO

* AT 1144 PM RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF TRENTON MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE STORM WILL BE N8EAR TRENTON BY 1150 PM AND LAREDO BY 1215 AM.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY STRONG
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...LIE DOWN IN A IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT
AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

JHV

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	55 min
Jun 5, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon	48 min
Jun 5, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	46 min
Jun 5, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	51 min
Jun 5, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson	48 min
Jun 5, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry, Harrison	63 min
Jun 5, 11:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Grundy, Harrison	43 min
Jun 6, 12:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Livingston	52 min
Jun 6, 12:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Lafayette	47 min
Jun 6, 12:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn	38 min
Jun 6, 12:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	33 min
Jun 6, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Lafayette	47 min
Jun 6, 1:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn	39 min
Jun 6, 9:11 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Grundy, Harrison	4 hr

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.