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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 24, 1988Leavenworth County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1988, 2:11 PM CST for Leavenworth County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 24, 1988, 2:11 PM CST (20:11 UTC)
Expired
Mar 24, 1988, 2:45 PM CST
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Leavenworth County, KS

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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 56 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1988-03-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 529 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1988-03-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 221 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
529 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
221 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
314 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
1.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 24, 1:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXNodaway42 min
Mar 24, 4:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXChariton, Linn67 min
Mar 24, 4:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSaline67 min
Mar 24, 4:46 PM CSTTornado WarningEAXSaline29 min
Mar 24, 4:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis58 min
Mar 24, 5:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBenton56 min
Mar 24, 5:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMoniteau, Morgan59 min
Mar 24, 5:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBoone, Cooper, Howard, Randolph59 min
Mar 24, 5:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMacon59 min
Mar 24, 2:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Wyandotte50 min
Mar 24, 2:51 PM CSTTornado WarningEAXJohnson, Wyandotte9 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.