Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1987, 11:08 PM CDT for Holt County, Missouri. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 1987, 11:08 PM CDT (04:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1987, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Holt 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 2902 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1531 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMCI 290408 RRA
SVRMCI
MOC087-290500-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTL AIRPORT
1108 PM CDT SUN JUN 28 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
...HOLT
AT 1100 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR 55 MILES
NORTHWEST OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 30 MPH.
AT 1100 PM CDT BASEBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR HIAWATHA KANSAS.
REMEBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT
BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. HEAVY RAINS
CAN COVER ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER
COVERS THE ROADS.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
JTR/JHHWhat 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 28, 7:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 730 PM CDT SUN JUN 28 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR A SMALL PART OF NORTHEAST KANSAS WEST OF TOPEKA... AT 730 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WIND WAS 30 MILES WEST OF EMPORIA KANSAS NEAR COTTONWOOD FALLS KANSAS. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 7:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 730 PM CDT SUN JUN 28 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR A SMALL PART OF NORTHEAST KANSAS WEST OF TOPEKA... AT 730 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WIND WAS 30 MILES WEST OF EMPORIA KANSAS NEAR COTTONWOOD FALLS KANSAS. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 10:38 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 1030 PM CDT SUN JUN 28 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR A SMALL PART OF NORTHEAST KANSAS WEST OF TOPEKA... AT 1030 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED ON THE KANSAS AND NEBRASKA BORDER 60 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF ST JOSEPH...OR NEAR PAWNEE CITY NEBRASKA. THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED INTO SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
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.