Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1987, 3:53 PM CDT for Buchanan County, Missouri. It was in force for 67 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 19, 1987, 3:53 PM CDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1987, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Buchanan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 4:15 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Buchanan, 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 954 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 19, 2:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 215 PM CDT WED AUG 19 1987 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ATCHINSON COUNTY IN MISSOURI UNTIL 245 PM CDT. AT 2PM AN AREA OF VERY STRONG THUNDER- STORMS WAS ENTERING THE EXTREME NORTHWEST CORNER OF ATCHINSON COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS ATCHINSON COUNTY BETWEEN 2 AND 3 PM. HOUR AND RAINFALL BETWEEN 3 AND 4 AM TOTAL k.64 INCHES. JOHNSON COUNTY KANSAS ALSO REPORTED WIND GUST TO 60 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED TO THE SOUTH AND EAST OF KANSAS CITY BUT RAIN AND OCCASIONAL THUNDER WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 2:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 215 PM CDT WED AUG 19 1987 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ATCHINSON COUNTY IN MISSOURI UNTIL 245 PM CDT. AT 2PM AN AREA OF VERY STRONG THUNDER- STORMS WAS ENTERING THE EXTREMmE NORTHWEST CORNER OF ATCHINSON COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS ATCHINSON COUNTY BETWEEN 2 AND 3 PM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 56 min |
| Aug 19, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt, Nodaway | 62 min |
| Aug 19, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Holt | 66 min |
| Aug 19, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 51 min |
| Aug 19, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson | 42 min |
| Aug 19, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Ray | 42 min |
| Aug 19, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis, Saline | 70 min |
| Aug 19, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Moniteau, Morgan | 62 min |
| Aug 19, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 44 min |
| Aug 19, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 45 min |
| Aug 19, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 66 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.