Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Mar 24, 1988, 4:46 PM CST for Saline County, Missouri. It was in force for 29 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
- Mar 24, 1988, 4:46 PM CST (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 1988, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saline 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 4:51 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Saline, MO | |
| Mar 24, 5:05 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Saline, 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 211 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 KCOU 242246 TORCOU MOC195-242315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION AND IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 446 PM CST THU MAR 24 1988 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI... SALINE AT 445 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR SWEET SPRINGS AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.] GO TO YOUR BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET UNDER SOMETHING STURDY. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING GLASS AND DEBRIS. VOTAW
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, 2 hours 32 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, 1 hour 30 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, 15 minutes 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.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, 4:57 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, 5:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon | 59 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.