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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Kansas City, MO

November 9, 1988Moniteau County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 9, 1988, 5:39 PM CST for Moniteau County, Missouri. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 9, 1988, 5:39 PM CST (23:39 UTC)
Expired
Nov 9, 1988, 6:30 PM CST
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Moniteau 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 220 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 1988-11-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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 1988-11-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 411 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
763 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
411 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
395 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.6

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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
Nov 9, 4:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBates, Cass, Henry62 min
Nov 9, 4:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson62 min
Nov 9, 5:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis41 min
Nov 9, 5:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper46 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.