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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 23, 1996Worth County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 1996, 4:14 PM CDT for Worth County, Missouri. It was in force for 46 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, 4:14 PM CDT (21:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 1996, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Worth County, MO

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 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, 4:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheridan, 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 232113
TORMCI
MOC227-232200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
414 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  WORTH COUNTY - NORTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    SHERIDAN
    GRANT CITY
    IRENA

* AT AT 412 PM RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR SHERIDAN
  MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR SHERIDAN BY 415 PM AND PASSIN&G NORTH OF
  GRANT CITY BY 440 PM.

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

MANION

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, 3:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Nodaway	34 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.