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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 18, 1987, 8:28 PM CDT for Bates County, Cass County, Missouri. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1987, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1987, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bates County, MO, Cass 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 4455 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1095 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMCI 190128
TORMCI
MOC013-037-190200-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTL AIRPORT
828 PM CDT MON MAY 18 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
...NORTHWESTERN BATES...SOUTHWESTERN CASS
AT 823 PM CDT THE DREXEL POLICE REPORTED A TORNADO SOUTH OF DREXEL
MISSOURI. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, May 18, 6:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 630 PM CDT MON MAY 18 1987 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF EAST AND NORTHEAST KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL AND NORTH MISSOURI UNTIL MIDNIGHT THIS MONDAY EVENING... AT 530 PM...AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS OCCURRING IN CENTRAL LEAVENWORTH COUNTY KANSAS. THE LEAVENWORTH COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED HAIL BETWEEN 1/4 AND 1/2 INCH SIZE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS JUST TO THE WEST OF THE CITY OF LEAVENWORTH. OTHER VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS...WITH POSSIBLE HAIL...STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN...WERE IN LYON COUNTY IN KANSAS AND ALONG THE IOWA, MISSOURI STATELINE NEAR HARRISON COUNT MISSOURI. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 46 min |
| May 18, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 49 min |
| May 18, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 42 min |
| May 18, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass | 33 min |
| May 18, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Macon, Randolph | 61 min |
| May 19, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Maries, Pulaski | 33 min |
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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.