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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 26, 1996Johnson County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1996, 9:54 PM CDT for Johnson County, Missouri. It was in force for 36 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: May 26, 1996, 9:54 PM CDT (02:54 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Johnson County, MO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 9:58 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Holden, 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 2098 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 291 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.4
Supercell composite: 14.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 270253
TORMCI
MOC101-270330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
954 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  JOHNSON COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    FAYETTEVILLE

* AT 952 PM RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF FAYETTEVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.   .

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR FAYETTEVILLE AT 1015 PM.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN
AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING.

MITCHELL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Buchanan, Platte	52 min
May 26, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Clinton	59 min
May 26, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	54 min
May 26, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair	62 min
May 26, 10:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Lafayette	40 min
May 26, 10:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Bates	46 min
May 26, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson, Lafayette	51 min
May 26, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry	57 min
May 26, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Ray	62 min
May 26, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Saline	59 min
May 26, 11:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis	55 min
May 27, 12:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton, Howard, Randolph	58 min
May 27, 12:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper	58 min
May 27, 3:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Mercer	46 min
May 27, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Sullivan	46 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.