Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1987, 6:27 PM CDT for Doniphan County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 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 12, 1987, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1987, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Doniphan County, KS
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 12, 6:36 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Doniphan, KS |
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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 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, Jun 12, 5:32 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
RADAR SUMMARY AND SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 533 PM CDT FRI JUN 12 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 10PM CDT FOR NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...INCLUDING THE KANSAS CITY AND ST JOSEPH AREAS... AT 525 PM...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA... SOUTHWEST IOWA...AND EXTREME NORTHWEST MISSOURI...AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM WESTCENTRAL TO EASTCENTRAL MISSOURI. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL...WERE OVER NORTHERN ATCHISON COUNTY IN EXTREME NORTHWEST MISSOURI MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Moniteau | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 59 min |
| Jun 12, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt | 62 min |
| Jun 12, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew | 57 min |
| Jun 12, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 64 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.