Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1986, 10:11 PM CDT for Macon County, Missouri. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1986, 10:11 PM CDT (03:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1986, 10:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Macon County, MO
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Peoria Regional, IL (KPIA), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 268 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
- 2866 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 955 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOU 110311 SVRCOU MOC121-110340- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 1011 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1040 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI...MACON AT 1010 PM CDT..RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE CITY OF MACON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCES DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH..LARGE HAIL..DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD A LOW LYING AREA. THESE STORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY IMMEDIATELY IF ONE IS SPOTTED. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. VOTAW/LARM
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 530PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1986 . . .TORNADO WATCH FOR WEST MISSOURI AND EAST KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM. . . AT 530 PM CDT...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND EASTCENTRAL KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN MISSOURI WERE LOCATED JUST TO THE NORTHEAST AND EAST OF ST JOSEPH..IN EASTERN ANDREW AND CENTRAL DE KALB COUNTIES. THE STORMS HAD A HISTORY OF 50 MILE AN HOUR WINDS AND 1/2 INCH HAIL. THE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN GENTRY AND NORTHWEST DAVIESS COUNTIES BY 630 THIS EVENING. IN KANSAS..THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOPEKA AND JUST EAST OF MANHAT)TAN. THESE STORMS WILL CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAINS..SOME HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 6:29 PM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 630PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1986 . . .TORNADO WATCH FOR WEST MISSOURI AND EAST KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM. . . AT 630 PM CDT A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 40 MILES TO THE WEST OF KANSAS CITY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD ENTER THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE METRO AREA WITHIN THE NEXT 30 TO 45 MINUTES. TH=ESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...AND PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE KANSAS CITY AREA.
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 7:14 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 710PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1986 . . .TORNADO WATCH FOR WEST MISSOURI AND EAST KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM. . . .....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WESTERN MISSOURI UNTIL MIDNIGHT.... AT 700 PM CDT A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS PRODUCED WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH IN JOHNSON COUNTY KANSAS DURING THE PAST 30 MINUTES. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST ABOUT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE THROUGH THE KANSAS CITY AREA IN ABOUT ONE HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...SOME HAIL AND PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AS THESE MOVE THROUGH THE METRO AREA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clinton, DeKalb | 46 min |
| Jun 10, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Jackson | 36 min |
| Jun 10, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Clay, Ray | 36 min |
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.