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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 6, 1986Boone County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 1986, 5:13 PM CDT for Boone County, Missouri. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1986, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1986, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Boone 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

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 267 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1986-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 328 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1986-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
328 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
535 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCOU 062213 RRA
TORCOU
MOC019-062245-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
513 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF

CENTRAL MISSOURI...BOONE

AT 510 PM CDT A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS JUST NORTH OF THE COLUMBIA
REGIONAL AIRPORT MOVING NORTHEAST 5 TO 10 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO SHOULD GO TO A BASEMENT OR AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  LEAVE CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING.

THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE CITY OF COLUMBIA.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK
THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

 MET

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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.