Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 23, 1986, 7:24 PM CDT for Callaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 23, 1986, 7:24 PM CDT (00:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 23, 1986, 8:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Callaway 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 156 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 765 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 309 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOU 240024 SVRCOU MOC019-027-089-240120- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 724 PM CDT TUE SEP 23 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 820 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF CENTRAL MISSOURI...BOONE...CALLAWAY AND EASTERN HOWARD AT 720 PM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 10 TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA AND 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF FULTON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. LARGE HAIL..DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN WILL ACCOMANY THESE STORMS. IT NOW APPEARS THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE CITY OF COLUMBIA. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE WARNING ISSUED FOR NORTHERN BOONE...HOWARD AND AUDRAIN COUNTIES THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8PM. THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE CITY OF COLUMBIA. 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 SPOvTTED. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. HAGEMEYER
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 41 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 50 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, 47 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 23, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone, Howard | 56 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.