Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1996, 8:43 PM CDT for Leavenworth County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports 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 5, 1996, 8:43 PM CDT (01:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1996, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Leavenworth County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:44 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 5, 8:47 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Easton, KS | |
| Jun 5, 9:17 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Lansing, KS |
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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 3130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 975 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 401 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 5.1
- Supercell composite
- 18.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMCI 060142
TORMCI
KSC103-060230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
843 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
LEAVENWORTH COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 930 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
EASTON
JARBALO
* AT 842 PM RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF
EASTON MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL MOVE INTO THE EASTON AREA BETWEEN 850 AND 900
PM AND WILL MOVE INTO THE JARBALO AREA BY AROUND 915 PM.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN
AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING.
BEUSTERIENWhat 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 5, 3:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 3:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 245 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996 CONVECTION AGAIN MAIN CONCERN. TRW DVLPNG ALG SEWD MVG OUTFLO BNDRY FM NCNTRL KS TO NWRN MO. LATEST VSBY STLT ALSO SHOWS ANOTHER BNDRY STRETCHING FM EAST OF KC SE INTO LAKE OF OZARKS. AIRMASS AHD OF BOUNDARY VERY UNSTABLE WITH LIS -8 TO -10 WITH CAPES 3000-4000 J/KG. XPCT TRW TO CONTINUE DVLP SE ALONG BOUNDARIES WITH POTENTIAL OF SVR. BOUNDARIES WL LIKELY BECOME NRLY STNRY WEST TO EAST ACR CENTRAL MO TNGT AS SFC LO AND 70 KT H3 SPEED MAX ENTER REGION TNGT. INITIALLY XPCT EXTENSIVE CONVECTION ALONG BOUNDARIES IN GREATEST SMC EARLY TONIGHT WITH RW/TRW NORTH OF BNDARY IN STG THETAE ADV. AREAS ALG AND NORTH OF BOUNDARY WL LIKELY SEE HEAVY RAINFALL WITH 1-3 INCHES PSBL ACR MOST OF CWA. RAINFALL MAY EXCEED FFG...SO WOULD LIKE FFA FOR TNGT ACR CWA. HEAVY RAINFALL ALSO XPCTD LATER TNGT AS XPCT MCS TO DVLP AHD OF FNT TO MOVE ACR NWRN AND WNCTRL MO AFT MIDN. PRECIP TO END IN WRN MO EARLY AM AND BY NOON ACR NCNTRL AND CNTRL MO. GUID TEMPS LOOK OK. MCI 64/78 83 DB DJV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan | 43 min |
| Jun 5, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Atchison | 44 min |
| Jun 5, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 52 min |
| Jun 5, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 55 min |
| Jun 5, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 55 min |
| Jun 5, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 44 min |
| Jun 5, 9:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson | 29 min |
| Jun 5, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 10:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 10:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 10:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson | 43 min |
| Jun 5, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 10:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 60 min |
| Jun 5, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn, Miami | 56 min |
| Jun 6, 12:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 12:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Linn | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 12:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 1:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Linn | 4 hr |
| Jun 6, 2:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson | 103 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 1996Every tornado warning in 1996Tornadoes in 1996
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.