Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1996, 7:16 PM CDT for Clinton County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 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 16, 1996, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1996, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clinton County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 8:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Cameron, 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 2527 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1266 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
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 tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jun 16, 3:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 350 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 1996 SHORT ON TIME AGN...TROPICAL ENVRNMT TO CONT OVR AREA TNGT WITH MAIN SFC TROF IN CNTRL KS MOVG INTO NW MO BY MON MRNG. PLENTY OF BNDRYS AHD OF FEATURE PER RAMSDIS AND LCL PCPLOT. CNVTVN XPCD AHD AND ALG MAIN BNDRY WITH TRAING OF CELLS. CURRENT ADAP AND MAPS CONT TO PINPOINT NE KS WITH STG MSTR CNVGNC AND THETA ADVCN...WHERE TRW RPDLY DVLPG. XPC MAIN DVLPMT SWD THRU REST OF AFTN ALG MSTR CNVGNC AXIS...WITH AREA SHIFTG EWD THRU CWA PER NGM FCST OF 850 THETA-E RDG AXIS BY MON AFTN. PAST 24HR PCP AMNTS GEN IN 1 INCH RNG FM 1ST GO ARND...WITH LCL AMNTS OF 2-3 INCHES IN NW CORNER OF CWA FM WORTH MO TO ATCHISON KS COUNTIES. PER DISCUSSION WITH STL...FFA FOR ENTR CWA IN LN TNGT...SPCLY NW WHERE 3HR FFG FM 1.5 TO 2 INCHES. WL BROADBRUSH 3RD/4TH PD WRK ZNS WITH AREA IN CYCLNC FLOW AS MID/UPR LVL LOW LIFTS INTO WI. MCI EB 68/79 64/84 +422 DJV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 28 min |
| Jun 16, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Clinton | 29 min |
| Jun 16, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Clinton | 44 min |
| Jun 16, 8:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Buchanan, Clinton | 116 min |
| Jun 16, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 29 min |
| Jun 16, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Clinton | 58 min |
| Jun 16, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Ray | 39 min |
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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.