Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 23, 1986, 6:54 PM CDT for Audrain County, Missouri. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 23, 1986, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 23, 1986, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Audrain 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 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Sep 23, 4:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 430 PM CDT TUE SEP 23 1986 AT 430 PM...A BAND OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...EXTENDED FROM THE WESTERN SECTONS OF THE KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN AN AREA...35 MILES WIDE...AND EXTENDED FROM SOUTHERN LEAVENWORTH COUNTY KANSAS TO ABOUT 40 MILES NORTH OF COLUMBIA MISSOURI. AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN LEAVENWORTH COUNTY WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS THE CENTRAL PART OF THE KANSAS CITY AREA. A PERIOD OF VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORM...AND POSSIBLY STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SOME HAIL. ALSO SOMES STREET FLOODING MAY OCCUR WITH THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS. ALL THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Sep 23, 5:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
530 PM CDT TUE SEP 23 1986
AT 530 PM...A BAND OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN...EXTENDED FROM EAST KANSAS INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN AN AREA...40 MILES WIDE...AND EXTENDED FROM
EMPORIA KANSAS THROUGH KANSAS CITY TO ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF
COLUMBIA MISSOURI.
AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER THE CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE KANSAS
CITY AREA...FROM EASTERN WYANDOTTE COUNTY KANSAS INTO JACKSON COUNTY
MISSOURI. A PERIOD OF VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE
STORM AND SOME STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO 40 TO 45 MILES. ALSO SOME STREET
FLOODING {MAY OCCUR WITH THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS.
ALL THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.Special weather statement, Sep 23, 6:37 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 630 PM CDT TUE SEP 23 1986 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700PM FOR JACKSON COUNTY MISSOURI. AT 630 PM...A INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY MISSOURI...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. DAMAGING WINDS ...HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. OTHER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...EXTENDED FROM EAST KANSAS INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A BAND..50 MILES WIDE...AND EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF EMPORIA KANSAS THROUGH KANSAS CITY TO ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBIA MISSOUGRI. ALL THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 9:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson | 4 hr |
| Sep 23, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 55 min |
| Sep 23, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Audrain, Boone | 48 min |
| Sep 23, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone, Howard | 66 min |
| Sep 22, 9:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 4 hr |
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.