Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1987, 2:10 PM CDT for Jackson County, Missouri. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1987, 2:10 PM CDT (19:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1987, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, MO
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Jackson, MO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 1768 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 626 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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, Jun 2, 1:36 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
SPECICL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 130 PM CDT SUN MAY 31 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MOST OF EASTERN KANSAS EXTREME WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL 7PM CDT.... AT 130 PM...VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN 25 MILES NORTHWEST AND 25 MILES WEST OF THE KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. OTHER VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN 30 MILES EAST AND 100 MILES EAST OF KANSAS CITY. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AND HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 12:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Randolph | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 12:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 66 min |
| Jun 2, 3:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Boone | 29 min |
| Jun 2, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 66 min |
| Jun 2, 3:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Callaway | 34 min |
| Jun 2, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.