Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1987, 6:58 PM CDT for Cooper County, Moniteau County, Morgan County, Missouri. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1987, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1987, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cooper County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Morgan 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 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 253 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, 2:18 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 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.
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 4:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 440 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... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED FOR BUCHANAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERN BUCHANAN COUNTY HAS MOVED SOUTHEAST AND WEAKENED. THE WARNING FOR NORTHERN PLATTE COUNTY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM.
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 5:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 515 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 SOUTHERN CLAY AND JACKSON COUNTIES IN MISSOURI UNTIL 530 PM. HAIL AND STRONG WINDS HAVE KNOCKED OUT WINDOWS IN THE KEARNEY AREA WHICH IS 20 MILES NORTH- EAST OF KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. 60 MILE AN HOUR WINDS AND DOWNED TREES WERE REPORTED JUST EAST OF LIBERTY MISSOURI JUST AFTER 5 PM. VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS IN NORTH$EASTERN JACKSON AND WESTERN RAY COUNTIES IN MISSOURI BETWEEN 515 AND 6 PM. PLEASE TAKE SHELTER FROM THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 5:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 535 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... AT 525 PM...A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS...NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE PRECIPITATION WAS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR RANDOLPH KANSAS TO MOUND CITY MISSOURI TO 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPICKARD MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST STORMS...CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS... AND HAIL WERE LOCATED JUST NORTHWEST OF TOPEKA KANSAS AND 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY I>NTERNATIONAL AIRPORT NEAR RICHMOND MISSOURI. SOUTHWEST RAY COUNTY AND NORTHEAST JACKSON COUNTY CAN EXPECT STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE UNTIL 6 PM.
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 5:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 535 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... AT 525 PM...A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS...NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE PRECIPITATION WAS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR RANDOLPH KANSAS TO MOUND CITY MISSOURI TO 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPICKARD MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST STORMS...CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS... AND HAIL WERE LOCATED JUST NORTHWEST OF TOPEKA KANSAS AND 25 MILES SOUTHEDAST OF KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT NEAR RICHMOND MISSOURI. SOUTHWEST RAY COUNTY AND NORTHEAST JACKSON COUNTY CAN EXPECT STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE UNTIL 6 PM. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 6:00 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 555 PM CDT WED AUG 19 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 494 NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI...NORTH OF KANSAS CITY... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THAT PORTION OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI NORTH OF KANSAS CITY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF ST JOSEPH. THIS WATCH CONTINIES IN EFFECT PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS AND WEST CENMTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 9 PM CDT ANOTHER WATCH AREA...NUMBER 495 IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS... SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 11PN CDT.
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, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan | 67 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.