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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 16, 1996Caldwell County, Clinton County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1996, 8:32 PM CDT for Caldwell County, Clinton County, Missouri. It was in force for 58 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: Jun 16, 1996, 8:32 PM CDT (01:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 1996, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Caldwell County, MO, Clinton County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 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 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 170132
TORMCI
MOC025-049-170230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
832 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  CALDWELL COUNTY - NORTHWEST MISSOURI
  CLINTON COUNTY - NORTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    PLATTSBURG
    KINGSTON
    LATHROP

* AT 826 PM RADAR INDICATED DEVELOPING TORNADOES NEAR PLATTSBURG AND
  NEAR KINGSTON MOVING EAST AROUND 25 MPH.

ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES AND SEEK SHELTER IN A REINFORCED
BUILDING...OR LIE DOWN IN A DITCH OR DEPRESSION.

DJV

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, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:52 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 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	44 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, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Ray	39 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.