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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 2, 1987Callaway County, Missouri

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Salem-Leckrone, IL at 12:00Z on 1987-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1094 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Salem-Leckrone, IL at 12:00Z on 1987-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 12:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXRandolph44 min
Jun 2, 12:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSaline49 min
Jun 2, 1:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPlatte55 min
Jun 2, 2:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson50 min
Jun 2, 2:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBoone48 min
Jun 2, 2:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass66 min
Jun 2, 3:01 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXBoone29 min
Jun 2, 3:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson66 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Missouri, 1987Every tornado warning in 1987Tornadoes 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.