Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1986, 8:15 PM CDT for Gasconade County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 1986, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1986, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gasconade 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
Salem-Leckrone, IL (KSLO), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 650 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1405 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOU 150115 SVRCOU MOC139-073-150200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 815 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI...SOUTHERN MONTGOMERY AND GASCONADE AT 811 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF HERMANN TO 10 MILES WEST OF OWENSVILLE TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OWENSVILLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE ACROSS ALL OF GASCONADE COUNTY AND A PORTION OF SOUTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. HEAVY RAINS WILL QUICKLY FLOOD SMALL STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS. THESE STORMS CAN PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY 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.
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 14, 5:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
530 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1986
. . .SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EAST KANSAS AND WEST MISSOURI UNTIL
9 PM CDT...
AT 530 PM CDT SCATTERED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE
EAST ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KANSAS..WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL MISSOURI.
THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE SOUTH OF KANSAS CITY.. LOCATED FROM PAOLA
KANSAS TO WARRENSBURG MISSOURI. SMALL HAIL HAD BEEN REPORTED NEAR
GARDEN CITY MISSOURI..IN SOUTHEAST CASS COUNTY.
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO NOTED 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY
NEAR CHILLICOTHE MISSOURI.
THOUGH THERE HAS BEEN NO REPORTED SEVERE WEATHER.. THESE STORMS COULD
PRODUCE STRONG WINDS..HAIL..AND LOCAL FLOODING AS THEY PASS.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.Special weather statement, Jun 14, 5:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
600 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1986
. . .SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EAST KANSAS AND WEST MISSOURI UNTIL
9 PM CDT...
A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS JUST FORMED OVER THE KANSAS CITY METRO
AREA. WITHIN THE PAST 10 MINUTES THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS
RECEIVED REPORTS OF PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL FROM LOCATIONS IN KANSAS
CITY KANSAS AND SHAWNEE KANSAS.
THESE TH(UNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE TOWARD THE EASTSOUTHEAST AND WILL
PRODUCE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL FOR THE NEXT 1 HOUR
IN THE METRO AREA SOUTH OF THE MISSOURI RIVER.Special weather statement, Jun 14, 6:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
630 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1986
. . .SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EAST KANSAS AND WEST MISSOURI UNTIL
9 PM CDT...
AT 630 PM CDT SCATTERED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER
EXTREME EAST CENTRAL KANSAS.. WEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI.
SOME OF THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE
KANSAS CITY METRO AREA.. WHERE REPORTS OF HALF INCH AND MARBLE SIZE
HAIL HAD COME FROM SOUTHERN KANSAS CITY KANSAS AND AROUND SHAWNEE KANSAS.
ELSEWHERE A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE SLOWLY SOUT/
EAST FROM 50 MILES SOUTH OF KANSAS CITY..IN THE BUTLER AND CLINT@ON
MISSOURI AREA.
MOST OF THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG WIND..SMALL HAIL AND
LOCAL FLOODING AS THEY PASS.
MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.