Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 1996, 3:56 PM CDT for Nodaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 34 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 23, 1996, 3:56 PM CDT (20:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1996, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nodaway County, MO
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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 23, 4:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Ravenwood, 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -399 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1219 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMCI 232055
TORMCI
MOC147-232130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
356 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 1996
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
NORTHERN NODAWAY COUNTY - NORTHWEST MISSOURI
* UNTIL 430 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
PICKERING
ORRSBURG
HOPKINS
PARNELL
* AT 353 PM RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR PICKERING
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL MOVE ALONG ROUTE NN AND BE NEAR PARNELL BY 410 PM.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN
AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING.
MANIONWhat 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 23, 2:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 2:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 150 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 1996 FCST CHALLENGES CONTINUE TO BE TSTM CHCS. TRW FIRING ALG IA BDR IN VCNTY OF WRMFNT. SOUTH OF FNT...AIR MASS QUITE UNSTABLE WITH LIS AROUND -10 AND CAPE AROUND 4000 J/KG. MAY SEE OTHER WDLY SCT TRW FIRE ACR AREA WITH LTL OR NO CAP AND HI INSTBLTY. MOST TRW THIS EVE IS XPCTD TO BE ACR NRN ZONES IN STGR MID LVL WIND AND VCNTY OF BOUNDARIES. LAST COUPLE OF DAYS MDLS HAVE BEEN LESS VIGOUROUS WITH FNT ENTERING AREA TNGT AND MON. MDLS VARY HOW DEEP FNT TO MAKE IT INTO MO...BUT WITH UPR RDG BUILDING BACK INTO PLAINS...DONT XPCT FNT TO MAKE IT NO FURTHER THAN MO RVR. TRW ALSO XPCTD ALG FNT IN SERN NEB THIS EVE. HAVE DOUBTS WHETHER ORGANIZED COMPLEX WL DEVELOP TNGT...AS GRIDDS SHOW LLJ WEAK WITH MID LVL FLO ALSO WEAKENING. HOWEVER...XPCT SCT RW/TRW TO SAG SE OVERNGT...PSBLY REACHING IRK TO MCI LN BY 12Z MON. TRW AGAIN PSBL MON AFTN IN VICINTY OF FNT WITH LTL OR NO CAP. FNT TO RETREAT INTO IA ON MON AS UPR RDG BUILDS NWD INTO PLAINS. WL NOT MENTION POPS ON MON AS TRW XPCT TO BE ISOLD/WDLY SCT. LTL COOLING XPCTD WITH FROPA WITH GUID TEMPS WITHIN A FEW DEGREES. M CI 72/89 71/91 3432 DB
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 1:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-241200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 100 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 1996 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... FORECAST...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THIS EVENING ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION WITH THE GREATEST CONCENTRATION OF ACTIVITY ALONG THE IOWA BORDER. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD ACROSS NORTHWEST SECTIONS TONIGHT...GENERALLY NORTHWEST OF A ST JOSEPH TO BETHANY LINE. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY THREAT. THE GREATEST THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE NORTH OF THE MISSOURI RIVER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. DISCUSSION...A WARM FRONT HAS LIFTED NORTH INTO SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHERN IOWA WITH A WEAK COLD FRONT PUSHING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST INTO CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE AIR MASS TO THE SOUTH OF THESE FEATURES HAS BECOME VERY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON. ALTHOUGH NO SURFACE FRONTS ARE EXPECTED TO INTERACT WITH THE UNSTABLE AIR MASS...A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL LIKELY TRIGGER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THIS EVENING. IN ADDITION...THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE WEAK COLD FRONT IN SOUTHERN NEBRASKA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND MOVE INTO NORTHWEST MISSOURI TONIGHT. VE\RY WARM AND HUMID CONDITIONS ARE ALSO EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON WITH TEMPERATURES AROUND 90 DEGREES IN MOST LOCATIONS. THE HUMID CONDITIONS WILL PUSH HEAT INDEX VALUES TO AROUND 100. BEUSTERIEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 45 min |
| Jun 23, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Worth | 46 min |
| Jun 23, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 22 min |
| Jun 23, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Mercer | 39 min |
| Jun 23, 5:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 4 hr |
| Jun 23, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Gentry, Nodaway | 33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.