Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Mar 24, 1988, 2:51 PM CST for Johnson County, Wyandotte County, Kansas. It was in force for 9 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 1988, 2:51 PM CST (20:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 1988, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 9 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMCI 242051 RRA
TORMCI
KSC091-209-242115-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTL AIRPORT
251 PM CST THU MAR 24 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
...NORTHERN JOHNSON
IN EAST KANSAS
...NORTHERN WYANDOTTE
A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND IN NORTHERN JOHNSON COUNTY.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 37 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, 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 |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 1988Every tornado warning in 1988Tornadoes in 1988
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.