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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 23, 1988Camden County, Miller County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1988, 5:41 PM CDT for Camden County, Miller County, Missouri. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 1988, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1988, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Camden County, MO, Miller 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

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 172 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1988-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 201 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1988-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
201 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 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 232241
SVRCOU
MOC029-131-232330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
541 PM CDT THU JUN 23 1988

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE CENTRAL PART OF MISSOURI
      EASTERN CAMDEN...WESTERN MILLER

AT 539 PM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NORTHEAST OF
TUSCUMBIA...20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JEFFERSON CITY...AND 8 MILES
SOUTH OF TUSCUMBIA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE WEST AT 15 MPH
AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE OSAGE BEACH AND LAKE OZARK STATE PARK
AREAS.

BE ALERT...THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE TORNADOES OR
TORNADO LIKE DAMAGE WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. FOR YOUR PROTECTION
GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS
UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

BOATERS ON AREA LAKES SHOULD MOVE TO SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY.

 HAGEMEYER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 3:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMaries49 min
Jun 23, 4:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMaries44 min
Jun 23, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMiller43 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.