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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Kansas City, MO

April 5, 1997Bates County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 5, 1997, 10:43 PM CST for Bates County, Missouri. It was in force for 32 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: Apr 5, 1997, 10:43 PM CST (04:43 UTC)
Expired: Apr 5, 1997, 11:15 PM CST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Bates County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:43 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 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: 207 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1314 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 060441 RRA
SVRMCI
MOC013-060515-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
1043 PM CST SAT APR 5 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  BATES COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1115 PM CST
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    HUME
    FOSTER
    RICH HILL

* AT 1041 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES
  WEST SOUTHWEST OF HUME MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR HUME BY 1050 PM AND IN RICH HILL BY 1055 
  PM.  THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 60 MPH.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.  FOR
YOUR SAFETY...MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.



BEUSTERIEN

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 5, 2:35 PM CST, 8 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 5, 2:35 PM CST, 8 hours 8 minutes before

NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
235 PM CST SAT APR 5 1997

...FORECAST CHALLENGES INCLUDE TIMING OF COLD AIR TONIGHT AND
TEMPERATURES THROUGH ALL PERIODS...

19Z SFC ANAL SHOWED CENTER OF LOW PRES VCNTY OF FSD WITH COLD FRONT
ASSOCIATED WITH MAIN BLAST OF COLD AIR LOCATED FROM FSD TO JUST
WEST OF GRI TO HLC. TIMING OF THIS FRONT WL BE CRITICAL TO TEMP
FCST TONIGHT AS COLDER AIR LAGGING BEHIND FRONT ABOUT 50 TO 100
MILES.

MODELS FAIRLY CONSISTENT WITH FROPA AT KMCI AND KSTJ IN THE 03Z TO
06Z TIMEFRAME WITH FRONT RACING EWD THROUGH REST OF FA SHORTLY
AFTER MIDNIGHT. EXPECT CAA TO BEGIN IN EARNEST AFTER MIDNIGHT
ACROSS THE AREA. STF WILL BE EXCELLENT TOOL IN HANDLING SLOW TEMP
DROPS THIS EVENING IN ADVANCE OF COLD AIR BLAST BEFORE THE BOTTOM
FALLS OUT AFTER MIDNIGHT. GUIDANCE TEMPS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH
EACH OTHER AS WELL AS ETA/AVN 2M TEMPS AND GOING FCST SO WILL
FOLLOW CLOSELY TONIGHT.  TSRA THREAT ALSO A CONCERN TONIGHT
ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE NW. VERY COLD AIR WORKING IN ALOFT WITH H5
TEMPS OF -18C TO -20C NOSING INTO NE KS/NW MO BY 00Z TONIGHT. SAT
TRENDS SHOWING MDT CU DEVELOPING OVR NC AND NE KS WITH KTWX RETURNS
AOB 35DBZ. FEEL THREAT WL REMAIN CONFINED TO NW MO THIS EVENING AND
WL INTRODUCE -TSRA INTO GOING FCST THERE. WL CONTINUE MENTION OF
-RA ACRS REST OF NRN MO TONIGHT BUT WL LEAVE REST OF FA DRY.

WINDS AND TEMPERATURES WL PLAY HAVOC ON FCST SUNDAY. BRISK
CONDITIONS DEFINITELY IN STORE WITH PLENTY OF CLOUDS AS DEPICTED BY
GRIDDED CROSS SECTIONS. WINDS WL LIKELY BE SUSTAINED 20 TO 30 KTS
WITH HIGHER GUSTS. CONSIDERED WIND ADVSY FOR TOMORROW ACROSS THE
NWRN 1/2 OF CWA BUT WL HOLD OFF FOR NOW. HOWEVER...WL HIT WINDS
HARD TOMORROW AFTN AT 20 TO 30 MPH AND GUSTY. LATER SHIFTS TONIGHT
WL WANT TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THE WINDS TOMORROW. TEMPS NOT
LIKELY TO RECOVER VERY MUCH EITHER WITH GUIDANCE AND GOING FCST
LOOKING GOOD.

COLDEST NIGHT APPRS TO BE SUNDAY NIGHT WITH FREEZING TEMPS ACROSS
ALL OF FA. MOSUNNY BUT COOL WX IN THE CARDS FOR MONDAY.

MCI NB 039/045 025/050 030 99210

HUDSON

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.