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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Kansas City, MO

August 16, 1987Miller County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1987, 6:30 PM CDT for Miller County, Missouri. It was in force for 60 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
Aug 16, 1987, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 1987, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Miller 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 16, 6:40 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52Miller, 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

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 190 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 1987-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 755 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1987-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 96 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
755 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-195 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1272 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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, Aug 16, 5:43 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
540 PM CDT SUN AUG 16 1987

AT 525 PM...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL
HAVE DEVELOPED OVER PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI.

THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF KIRKSVILLE MISSOURI
AND 85 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI...NEAR COLE CAMP AND STOVER
MISSOURI.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A 40 MILE WIDE BAND FROM 30 MILES NORTHWEST
OF JOPLIN MISSOURI TO NEAR KIRKSVILLE MISSOURI.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper, Moniteau, Morgan55 min
Aug 16, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis55 min
Aug 16, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBoone, Callaway, Cole60 min
Aug 16, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCamden64 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.