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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 5, 1996Leavenworth County, Wyandotte County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1996, 9:31 PM CDT for Leavenworth County, Wyandotte County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min. 8 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, 9:31 PM CDT (02:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1996, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Leavenworth County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:34 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
Jun 5, 9:41 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Basehor, KS
Jun 5, 9:41 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Tonganoxie, KS
Jun 5, 9:50 PM CDT	Hail 2	Piper, KS
Jun 5, 9:55 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Basehor, KS
Jun 5, 10:05 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Tonganoxie, KS
Jun 5, 10:07 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Piper, KS
Jun 5, 10:13 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60	Bonner Springs, KS
Jun 5, 10:20 PM CDT	Hail 1	Basehor, 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 060232 COR
TORMCI
KSC103-209-060315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
931 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  LEAVENWORTH COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
  WYANDOTTE COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    BASEHOR
    BONNER SPRINGS

* AT 930 PM RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR JARBALO MOVING
  EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE STORM WILL BE INTO BASEHOR BY 945 AND BONNER SPRINGS BETWEEN
  945 AND 1000 PM. .

* IN ADDITION...BASEBALL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS TO 90 MPH OR GREATER
  ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

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

JHV

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, 8:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Leavenworth	47 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, 9:46 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

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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.