Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1997, 6:53 PM CDT for Nodaway County, Worth County, Missouri. It was in force for 52 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 16, 1997, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1997, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Nodaway County, MO, Worth County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 | Sheridan, MO | A local radio station reported a wind gust to 65 MPH at Sheridan during a severe thunderstorm. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMCI 162353 RRA
SVRMCI
MOC147-227-170100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
653 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1997
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
NODAWAY COUNTY - NORTHWEST MISSOURI
WORTH COUNTY - NORTHWEST MISSOURI
* UNTIL 745 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
HOPKINS BY 705 PM
MARYVILLE BY 730 PM
GRANT CITY BY 730 PM
* AT 653 PM WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARYVILLE TO 25 MILES
NORTHWEST OF GRANT CITY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM CAN EXPECT HAIL ONE INCH OR LARGER
IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS TO 65, MPH.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FOR
YOUR SAFETY...MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
BUNTINGWhat 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 May 16, 3:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 3:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 305 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1997 SFC ANLYS AND VIS LOOP AT 19Z SHW BNDRY MVG SEWRD INTO NRN NE. VIS LOOP ALSO SHWS THIN LINE OF CU DVLPG FM ABOUT LNK TO DDC ALG AXIS OF LO LVL MSTR AND -4 TO -6 LIS. AS CNVGNC FM NRN BNDRY MVG SE HITS MSTR POOL ANTICIPATE LINE OF SHRWS/TSTMS FORMING AND MVG INTO NW CWA THIS EVNG. ATM HAS WARMED UP CONSIDERABLY LAST 12 HRS WITH FRZG LVLS NOW AT OR ABV 10K FT. HOWEVER WITH DRY SOUNDING AND WET BULB ZERO VALUES STILL ARND 7-8K FT LARGE HAIL NOT OUT OF QUESTION. TSTM WNDS MAIN CONCERN WITH STG DIRECTIONAL SHEAR. HOWEVER DUE TO MOST SGFNT LIFTING MECHANISMS ALOFT FOCUSED OVR MN/IA THINK THAT ANY SVR WX THIS EVNG WILL BE WDLY SCT ACR FCST AREA. WILL KEEP CRNT POPS IN FCST FOR TNT AND HAVE ALREADY MENTIONED PSBL LCL SVR IN 18Z HAZARDOUS WX OUTLOOK. CRNT TEMP FCST FOR TNT LKS GOOD AS WELL AND WILL MAKE NO CHGS. CRNT MSTLY SUNNY FCST FOR SAT LKS GOOD. MAY TRIM TEMPS A BIT CLOSER TO SLIGHTLY COOLER FAN NUMBERS. WITH INCRS IN LO LVL MSTR THINK QUITE A BIT OF CU SHOULD FORM ON SAT AND KEEP A LIGHT LID ON TEMPS SAT. REAL FIREWORKS APPR TO BE ON TAP FOR SAT NITE AND SUN. MODELS SHW STG INSTABILITY AXIS OVR ERN KS/NW MO AHD OF CD FNT ON SUN. ONCE AGN STG WNDS SHLD BE PRIMARY FOCUS WITH TSTMS WITH DECENT DIRECTIONAL SHEAR. STILL A BIT CONCERNED THAT STEEP LAPSE RATE MAY BE MORE OF A FUNCTION OF INTENSE WAA IN LO LVLS AND GRIDDED DAT SUGGESTS LTL CAA AT OR ABV H5. HOWEVER AS SPC MENTIONED WITH TIME OF YEAR AND NW FLW...POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR WND/DERECHIO TYPE EVENT. WILL GO WITH LIKELY POPS SAT NITE AND SUN OVR WRN CWA AND CHC SAT NITE/LIKELY SUN ACR E. THINK THAT FWC/FAN MAY BE TOO WRM FOR SUN WITH CLDS AND PCPN. MCI UT 055/081 061/076 056 88316 BODNER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 16, 1:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-171200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 100 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1997 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT... FORECAST: SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN KANSAS AND POTENTIALLY ROLL INTO NORTHWEST MISSOURI THIS EVENING AND OVER THE REST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA TONIGHT. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT BEING DAMAGING WINDS. IF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DO INDEED DEVELOP THEY ARE MOST LIKELY TO OCCUR ALONG AND WEST OF I-35 FROM KANSAS CITY TO BETHANY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING IN EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI. DISCUSSION: AS MOISTURE BEGINS TO RETURN FROM THE SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON OVER CENTRAL KANSAS...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM. WITH STRONG SOUTWEST WINDS IN THE LOWER ATMOSPHERE AND NORTHWEST WINDS ALOFT...CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTAIN DAMAGING WINDS. NOTE: THERE IS A BETTER CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY EVENING INTO EARLY SUNDAY MORNING OVER THE OUTLOOK AREA. BODNER
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.