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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 23, 1996Nodaway County, Missouri

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.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 23, 4:05 PM CDTThunderstorm WindRavenwood, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1996-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 70 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1996-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 141 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

MANION

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 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXNodaway45 min
Jun 23, 4:14 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXWorth46 min
Jun 23, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison22 min
Jun 23, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMercer39 min
Jun 23, 5:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXNodaway4 hr
Jun 23, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew, Gentry, Nodaway33 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.