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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 26, 1996Bates County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1996, 10:29 PM CDT for Bates County, Missouri. It was in force for 46 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: May 26, 1996, 10:29 PM CDT (03:29 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1996, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Bates County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 140 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 270328
TORMCI
MOC013-270415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
1029 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  EASTERN BATES COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    ROCKVILLE

* AT 1115 PM RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF ROCKVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR ROCKVILLE BY 1100 PM.v

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

MITCHELL

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 May 26, 3:37 PM CDT, 6 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 3:37 PM CDT, 6 hours 52 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
315 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

FCST QUESTION WILL BE WHEN NOT IF TSTMS WILL REDVLP. AMS CONTS TO
RECOVER FM SUBSIDENCE LEFTOVER FM ERYR MCS. SOME AFTN SUN HAS ALLOWED
AMS TO DSTBLZ S OF E-W FNT...BNDRY EXTDS FM DEEPENING LOW OVR OK PNHDL
EWD ACRS SRN KS AND CNTRL MO. ADAP SHOWS NO CAP ACRS SRN 2/3 KS AND MO.
WSI RADAR LOOP SHOWS CLUSTERS OF TSTMS OVR S CNTRL/CNTRL KS HEADING NNE
TWDS NEB. RAFS GRIDDED DATA AND TO A LESSER EXTENT THE ETA SHOW BEST
THTE ADVCTN INTO ERN NEB BY 00Z.

OVERALL WILL GO WITH SLOER ETA AS CLOSED UPR SYS TYPICALLY COME OUT
SLOER THAN PROGD. NGM PLACES SFC LOW TOO FAR BACK INTO CD AIR TMRW.
MAIN SHOW WILL BE SVR TSTMS CURRENTLY DVLPG IN PVA ZONE FM OK INTO CNTRL
KS. THIS ACTVTY WILL GRADUALLY SPREAD E AS CELLS TRK NNE. EST ARRIVAL OF
THIS ACTVTY INTO FAR WRN CWA AFT 03Z...INTO KC METRO BTN 04Z-06Z. WILL
ALSO NEED TO WATCH E-W BNDRY ACRS FAR SRN CNTYS THIS EVE FOR DVLPMT OF
SCT TSTMS AS AMS UNCAPPED. LIKE QPF OUTLOOK AND AGREE WITH STL IN
COVERING ENTIRE CWA WITH A FFA FOR TNGT.

NGM/ETA BITH FCST DRY SLOT TO MOV ACRS W CNTRL MO SHORTLY AFT 12Z.
HWVR...WILL NEED TO CONSIDER REDVLPMT FOR STG/PSBL SVR TSTMS IN THE
AFTN AS SRN PTN OF CWA WILL BE UNDER CD POOL ALOFT AND LIKELY A H8
THERMAL RDG LEADING TO STEEP LAPSE RATES AND CNVTV INSTBY. NOTICE TSTMS
OVR ERN CO/WRN KS UNDER CDR AIR ALOFT. TEMPS ALSO LIKELY AFFECTED AND
WITH A SOUTH WIND AND ANY SUN SHUD BE ABLE TO BTR GUID.

MCI 64/77   95

JULY

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 9:30 PM CDT, 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
930 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0747 PM    EASTON                    KS   60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/26/96   LEAVENWORTH

0803 PM    ATCHISON                  KS   .88 INCH HAIL
05/26/96   ATCHISON

0810 PM    LA CYGNE                  KS   60 TO 65 MPH TSTM GUST

05/26/96   LINN

0812 PM    3 N LEAVENWORTH           KS   70 MPH TSTM GUST
05/26/96   LEAVENWORTH                    JCT HWY 29 AND K92

0817 PM    ST JOSEPH                 MO   WIND DAMAGE
05/26/96   BUCHANAN                       TREES DOWN IN TOWN

0850 PM    CLAYCOMO                  MO   65 MPH TSTM GUST
05/26/96   CLAY                           JCT I-35 AND HWY 69

0855 PM    FREEMAN                   MO   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/26/96   CASS

0900 PM    SMITHVILLE                MO   65 MPH TSTM GUST
05/26/96   CLAY

0910 PM    SMnITHVILLE                MO   FLOODING
05/26/96   CLAY                           WATER OVER ROADS AROUND
                                          SMITHVILLE

WELVAERT

Local storm report, May 26, 9:43 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED ATCHISON REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
930 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0747 PM    EASTON                    KS   60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/26/96   LEAVENWORTH

0803 PM    5 S ATCHISON              KS   .88 INCH HAIL
05/26/96   ATCHISON                       FROM HIGHWAY PATROL

0810 PM    LA CYGNE                  KS   60 TO 65 MPH TSTM GUST
05/26/96   LINN

0812 PM    3 N LEAVENWORTH           KS   70 MPH TSTM GUST
05/26/96   LEAVENWORTH                    JCT HWY 29 AND K92

0817 PM    ST JOSEPH                 MO   WIND DAMAGE
05/26/96   BUCHANAN                       TREES DOWN IN TOWN

0850 PM    CLAYCOMO                  MO   65 MPH TSTM GUST
05/26/96   CLAY                           JCT I-35 AND HWY 69

0855 PM    FREEMAN                   MO   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/26/96   CASS

0900 PM    SMITHVILLE                MO   65 MPH TSTM GUST
05/26/96   CLAY

0910 PM    SMITHVILLE                MO   FLOODING
05/26/96   CLAY                           WATER OVER ROADS AROUND
                                          SMITHVILLE

WELVAERT

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, 9:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Johnson	36 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, 10:54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.