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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 17, 1989Benton County, Morgan County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 1989, 5:07 PM CST for Benton County, Morgan County, Missouri. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 17, 1989, 5:07 PM CST (23:07 UTC)
Expired
Mar 17, 1989, 5:45 PM CST
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Benton County, MO, Morgan 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 174 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 1989-03-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1989-03-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 466 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1047 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
466 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
481 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCOU 172307
SVRCOU
MOC015-141-180000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
507 PM CST FRI MAR 17 1989

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 17, 3:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMontgomery36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.