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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Kansas City, MO

November 15, 1988Maries County, Pulaski County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 15, 1988, 6:42 PM CST for Maries County, Pulaski County, Missouri. It was in force for 63 min. 2 reports 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: Nov 15, 1988, 6:42 PM CST (00:42 UTC)
Expired: Nov 15, 1988, 7:45 PM CST
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Maries County, MO, Pulaski 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
Nov 15, 6:45 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 51	Pulaski, MO
Nov 15, 7:30 PM CST	Tornado F2	Pulaski, 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

Salem-Leckrone, IL (KSLO), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 286 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 169 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -171 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 664 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 602 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 631 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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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, Nov 15, 1:21 PM CST, 5 hours 21 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
120 PM CST THU NOV 15 1988

    ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST THIS EVENING
               FOR THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA...

A TORNDO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
...INCLUDING THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA...AND ST JOSEPH...UNTILL 800 PM.

A MAJOR STORM SYSTEM CENTERED OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS LATE THIS MORNING
WILL MOVE RAPIDLY NORTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AND INTO THE
WESTERN GREAT LAKES REGION BY EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING.  STRONG SOUTHERLY
WINDS OUT AHEAD OT THIS SYSTEM WILL BRING MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR
NORTHWARD INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON.  NORTHERLY WINDS
WRAPPING AROUND THE BACK SIDE OF THE LOW BRING A SURGE OF COLD POLAR
AIR SOUTHWARD.

A COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM WILL PUSH RAPIDLY EAST ACROSS
THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA THIS EVENING...SETTING THE STAGE FOR
EXPLOSIVE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT.  SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
LIKELY BECOME SEVERE DURING THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS
ACROSS THE METRO AREA...PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND
POSSIBILY TORNADOES.

YOU ARE ADVISED TO MON_ITOR RADIO...TV...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE
LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION.

EDF

Special weather statement, Nov 15, 2:08 PM CST, 4 hours 34 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
210 PM CST THU NOV 15 1988

    ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST THIS EVENING
        FOR WESTERN MISSOURI AND EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL
MISSOURI...INCLUDING THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA...AND ST JOSEPH...UNTIL
8 PM CST THIS TUESDAY EVENING.

AT 155 PM CST SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG
GUSTY WINDS...WERE OVER NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND EASTERN
KANSAS.  THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 30 MILES NORTHWEST AND 20 MILES EAST
OF ST JOSEPH MISSOURI...ALSO NEAR HARRISONVILLE MISSOURI...AND A LINE
OF STORMS 15 MILES WEST OF TOPEKA KANSAS.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 TO 50 MILES AN HOUR.

AT 127 PM CST A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED A WIND GUST TO 46 MILES AN HOUR
AT KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE KANSAS CITY METRO
AREA FOR THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.  SOME OF THESE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE
WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND POSSIBILY TORNADOES.

YOU ARE ADVISED TO MONITOR RADIO...TV...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE
LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION.

EDF

Local storm report, Nov 15, 4:37 PM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO
430 PM CST TUE NOV 15 1988

REPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER THAT OCCURRED ON WEDNESDAY 11-15-88.

TIME                       REPORT
237 PM CST                 TREES...POWER LINES AND POLES DOWN NEAR
                           MAYVILLE IN DEKALB CO. MO.
243 PM CST                 GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEVADA
                           MO.
315 PM CST                 60 MPH WINDS IN OLATHE KANSAS
315 PM CST                 98TH AND PARALLEL KANSAS CITY KANSAS 60 MPH
                           WINDS.
315 PM CST                 60 MPH WINDS IN MERRIAM KANSAS.
324 PM CST                 ROOF DAMAGE IN PLATTE CO. MO NEAR I-29 AND
                           HWY 45.

T AMIS

Special weather statement, Nov 15, 4:50 PM CST, 1 hour 52 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
445PM CST TUESDAY NOVEMBER 15 1988

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UTILL 8 PM FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST...
NORTHCENTRAL...CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI.

AT 430 PM...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI...
IN THE COUNTIES OF PUTNAM AND SULLIVAN.  STRONG GUSTY WIND AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL...WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH
THESE STORMS.  THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AND
WILL PASS INTO IOWA BY 515 PM.

OTHER NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME CONTAINING
HEAVY RAIN...WERE OVER WEST AND PARTS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI.
THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVY RAINS WERE IN A BAND...25
MILES WIDE...AND EXTENDED FROM 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY TO
75 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY.

THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...TO THE
WEST AND NORTHWEST OF TOPEKA.

THE SHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 15, 6:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cole, Miller	47 min
Nov 15, 6:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Audrain, Callaway, Osage	63 min
Nov 15, 7:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gasconade, Montgomery	62 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.