Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1988, 10:00 AM CDT for Holt County, Missouri. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 1988, 10:00 AM CDT (15:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1988, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Holt County, MO
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 10:05 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Holt, MO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 1721 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 692 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.4
- Supercell composite
- 6.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMCI 081501
SVRMCI
MOC087-081530-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
1000 AM CDT SUN MAY 8 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
...HOLT
HOLT COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED LARGE HAIL IN THE SOUTH PART OF HOLT
COUNTY. RADAR INDICATED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 9:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 69 min |
| May 8, 11:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt, Nodaway | 42 min |
| May 8, 11:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Platte | 62 min |
| May 8, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Clinton | 55 min |
| May 8, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 55 min |
| May 8, 12:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess, Harrison, Mercer | 69 min |
| May 8, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn, Macon | 51 min |
| May 8, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Randolph | 65 min |
| May 8, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Putnam, Sullivan | 44 min |
| May 8, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Linn, Macon | 67 min |
| May 8, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis, Saline | 67 min |
| May 8, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Audrain, Boone, Callaway | 56 min |
| May 8, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Moniteau | 56 min |
| May 8, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Morgan | 56 min |
| May 8, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone, Cole | 49 min |
| May 8, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Maries, Miller, Osage | 49 min |
| May 8, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Callaway, Gasconade, Montgomery | 64 min |
| May 8, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Benton, Camden, Morgan | 57 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.