Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1987
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1987, 3:26 PM CDT for Callaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1987, 3:26 PM CDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1987, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Callaway 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
Salem-Leckrone, IL (KSLO), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 1094 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 905 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 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 KCOU 022026 TORCOU MOC027-022100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 326 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI...SOUTHERN CALLAWAY AT 324 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FULTON MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS IS THE SAME STORM THAT SPAWNED A SHORT-LIVED TORNADO IN SOUTHERN BOONE COUNTY AND BLEW DOWN LARGE TREES AND DAMAGED A HOUSE IN EASLY IN SOUTHERN BOONE COUNTY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER IF AVAILABLE...OTHERWISE TO A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING. IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM...GO TO A REINFORCED SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNIN7G. HAGEMEYER
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, Jun 2, 1:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
SPECICL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 130 PM CDT SUN MAY 31 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MOST OF EASTERN KANSAS EXTREME WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL 7PM CDT.... AT 130 PM...VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN 25 MILES NORTHWEST AND 25 MILES WEST OF THE KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. OTHER VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN 30 MILES EAST AND 100 MILES EAST OF KANSAS CITY. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AND HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 12:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Randolph | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 12:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 50 min |
| Jun 2, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 66 min |
| Jun 2, 3:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Boone | 29 min |
| Jun 2, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 66 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.