Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1988, 2:25 PM CST for Johnson County, Wyandotte County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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
- Mar 24, 1988, 2:25 PM CST (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 1988, 3:15 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Johnson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 2:37 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Johnson, KS |
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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Mar 24, 2:14 PM CST, 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 210 PM CST THU MAR 24 1988 ...TORNADO WATCH..NUMBER 22..IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM.. AT 2 PM RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDESTORMS...25 MILES WIDE..FROM 30 MILES SOUTH OF OTTOWA KANSAS THRROUGH THE WEST PART OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA...TO ST JOSEPH AND INTO NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI...NORTH EAST OF MARYVILE. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. HALF INCH HAIL HAD BEEN REPORTED FROM A FEW LOCATIONS IN WYONDOTTE COUNTY IN KANSAS. THESE STORMS CONTINUED TO INTENSIFY..STAY TUNED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 1:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 42 min |
| Mar 24, 4:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Linn | 67 min |
| Mar 24, 4:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 67 min |
| Mar 24, 4:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EAX | Saline | 29 min |
| Mar 24, 4:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 58 min |
| Mar 24, 5:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Benton | 56 min |
| Mar 24, 5:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Moniteau, Morgan | 59 min |
| Mar 24, 5:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone, Cooper, Howard, Randolph | 59 min |
| Mar 24, 5:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon | 59 min |
| Mar 24, 2:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 34 min |
| Mar 24, 2:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson, Wyandotte | 9 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.