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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 24, 1988Macon County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1988, 5:31 PM CST for Macon County, Missouri. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 24, 1988, 5:31 PM CST (23:31 UTC)
Expired: Mar 24, 1988, 6:30 PM CST
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Macon 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

Peoria Regional, IL (KPIA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 268 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Mar 24, 2:14 PM CST, 3 hours 17 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.

Special weather statement, Mar 24, 3:16 PM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
310 PM CST THU MAR 24 1988

...TORNADO WATCH..NUMBER 22..IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM..

AT 3 PM A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS...25 MILES WIDE...STRETCHED
FROM NEAR LAMONI IOWA...INTO THE EAST PARTS OF KANSAS CITY...AND SOUTH
INTO EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...JUST NORTH OF FT SCOTT.

THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED OUT OF NORTHEAST KANSAS AND
THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF MISSOURI...BUT CONTINUES TO THE EAST OF THE
LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY TUNED.

Local storm report, Mar 24, 4:31 PM CST, 1 hour before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO
430 PM CST THU MAR 24 1988

FOR WEATHER ON 3/24/88

TIME                     REPORT
215 PM   1/2 INCH HAIL NEAR TONGANOXIE KANSAS...LEAVENWORTH COUNTY.
230 PM   1/4 INCH HAIL ST. JOSEPH MISSOURI...BUCHANNAN COUNTY.
230 PM   MARBLE SIZE HAIL EAST OF LANSING KANSAS...LEAVENWORTH CTY.
230 PM   FUNNEL CLOUD 31/2-4 MILES WEST...SOUTHWEST OF DESOTO KS IN
         JOHNSON COUNTY KS.
235 PM   1/4 INCH HAIL KANSAS CITY KANSAS CITY HALL...WYANDOTTE CTY.
          COUNTY ASCS OFFICE.
237 PM   TORNADO PICKED UP FENCE SOUTHWEST OF DESOTO KANSAS...LIFTED
         BACK TO FUNNEL CLOUD...TORNADO SIGNATURE ON RADAR...
         JOHNSON COUNTY KANSAS.
24T0 PM   SELS REPORTED WALL CLOUD SEEN OVER JOHNSON COUNTY KANSAS.
259 PM   45 MPH WINDS...SMALL HAIL...GLADSTONE MO...CLAY COUNTY.

Special weather statement, Mar 24, 4:55 PM CST, 36 minutes before

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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, 2:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Leavenworth	34 min
Mar 24, 2:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Wyandotte	50 min
Mar 24, 2:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EAX	Johnson, Wyandotte	9 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.