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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 16, 1987Maries County, Pulaski County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1987, 6:38 PM CDT for Maries County, Pulaski County, Missouri. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 16, 1987, 6:38 PM CDT (23:38 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1987, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Maries County, MO, Pulaski 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 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 286 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, Salem-Leckrone, IL at 12:00Z on 1987-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2929 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Salem-Leckrone, IL at 12:00Z on 1987-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 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
2929 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1061 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 3:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCaldwell42 min
Jun 16, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper, Moniteau, Morgan39 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.