Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1997, 2:47 PM CDT for Jackson County, Missouri. It was in force for 43 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
- Jun 15, 1997, 2:47 PM CDT (19:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1997, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1222 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
496
WUUS1 KMCI 151946 RRA
SVRMCI
MOC095-152035-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
247 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
JACKSON COUNTY - NORTHWEST MISSOURI
* UNTIL 330 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
INDEPENDENCE AT 305 PM
RAYTOWN AT 300 PM
DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY 305 PM
* AT 245 PM WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF KANSAS CITY MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 20 MPH.
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM CAN EXPECT HAIL THE SIZE OF
GOLFBALLS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.
WELVAERTWhat 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 Jun 15, 2:37 PM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:37 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 237 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997 SOMEWHAT COMPLICATED FCST THIS PD AS AREA SEEMINGLY BTWN MAIN SYNOPTIC SCALE DYNAMICS. STNG VORT DIVING INTO MN ATTM AND SETTING OF LINE OF TSRA ALNG PRE-FNTL TROF FM WI TO MCW-TQE-HSI TO NR HLC. MAIN FNT STILL UP ACRS SD...ALSO VSBL ON SAT IMAGERY. THE PRE-FNTL BDRY WILL BE THE ACTIVE ONE AS CNVG POOLS THE MOISTR ALNG AND AHEAD OF IT...AND DRYER W FLOW BEHIND. THIS TROF TO ONLY MAKE SLOW PROGRESS INTO NW MO BE EVE. BUT...ALSO HAVE TO CONTEND WITH WDLY SCT -SHRA/TSRA DVLPNG IN RANDOM FASHION IN MOIST AND UNSTABLE AMS OVR AREA. DWPTS IN UPR 60S WITH A FEW STRAY 70 READINGS ARND AS WELL. MDLS DISSIMILAR IN DETAILS... AND SEEM TO DOWNPLAY PCPN THREAT FOR AREA. AM GOING ALNG WITH SPC/HPC SCENARIO OF COMPLEX GOING OVR KS AND HEADING OUR WAY TONIGHT...WHICH SHOULD KEEP CHCS FAIRLY HIGH FOR PCPN. DONT NECESSARILY AGREE WITH 94E OUTLOOK WITH FFG VALUES SO HIGH FOR NW MO...AND ONLY RIVER RUNNING HIGH IS THE MIGHTY MO. GUID POPS QUITE LOW FOR THIS EVENT...AND WILL CONT TO GO ABV NUMBERS. MDLS THEN CONT TO DISAGREE WITH TIMING OF FNT AND JUST HOW FAR IT DROPS INTO MO BEFORE STALLING OUT. ETA HANGS IT UP OVR SRN MO...WITH AVN JUST A BIT FURTHER S. NGM TAKES IT ALL THE WAY TO THE ARK BRDR. THIS HAS IMPLICATIONS FOR LATER PDS OF FCST AS PIECES CONT TO HEAD ALNG BDRY FM SW CUTOFF. ETA THE MOST GUNG-HO WITH THE SHEARING PIECE THEORY...WHILE NGM KEEPS SYS MORE INTACT. FOR NOW WILL GO AHEAD AND INTRODUCE LOW POPS TO SRN ZONES TUE. LATER SHIFTS WILL NEED TO MONITR JUST WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE BDRY AS LOWEST FFG VALUES ARE OVER SRN ZONES. .EAX...NONE. WELVAERT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 12:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-161200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 100 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE FROM THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. FORECAST: SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON...WITH MORE WIDESPREAD CHANCES BY EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS WITH LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS THE MAIN THREATS. SPOTTER GROUPS...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS WILL WANT TO STAY ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AS ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY. DISCUSSION: A COMPLEX WEATHER SCENARIO IS DEVELOPING FOR THE OUTLOOK AREA. WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR IS IN PLACE ACROSS THE REGION... AND WITH DAYTIME HEATING...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE THIS AFTERNOON. A DRY LINE OVER WESTERN KANSAS IS EXPECTED TO GENERATE A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX LATE THIS AFTERNOON...AND THESE STORMS WILL MOVE EAST TOWARD THE AREA FOR TONIGHT. IN ADDITION...A COLD FRONT IS APPROACHING FROM THE NORTHWEST AND WILL ALSO BE A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE NORTHWEST TIP OF MISSOURI OVERNIGHT...AND CROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA BY MONDAY MORNING. A WIND SHIFT LINE AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL ALSO PROVIDE CONVERGING FLOW...WHICH COULD" GENERATE STORMS AS WELL LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. WELVAERT
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 1:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-161200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 100 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE FROM THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. FORECAST: SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON...WITH MORE WIDESPREAD CHANCES BY EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS WITH LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS THE MAIN THREATS. SPOTTER GROUPS...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS WILL WANT TO STAY ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AS ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY. DISCUSSION: A COMPLEX WEATHER SCENARIO IS DEVELOPING FOR THE OUTLOOK AREA. WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR IS IN PLACE ACROSS THE REGION... AND WITH DAYTIME HEATING...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE THIS AFTERNOON. A DRY LINE OVER WESTERN KANSAS IS EXPECTED TO GENERATE A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX LATE THIS AFTERNOON...AND THESE STORMS WILL MOVE EAST TOWARD THE AREA FOR TONIGHT. IN ADDITION...A COLD FRONT IS APPROACHING FROM THE NORTHWEST AND WILL ALSO BE A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE NORTHWEST TIP OF MISSOURI OVERNIGHT...AND CROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA BY MONDAY MORNING. A WIND SHIFT LINE AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL ALSO PROVIDE CONVERGING FLOW...WHICH COULD GENERATE STORMS AS WELL LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. WELVAERT
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.