Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1989, 6:00 PM CDT for Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 1989, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1989, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Miami 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 894 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KMCI 242302
SVRMCI
KSC121-242345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
600 PM CDT SAT JUN 24 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
...NORTHEASTERN MIAMI
AT 555PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF PAOLA KS
WHICH IS 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY.
THE SEVERE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH LOUISBURG KS AROUND 630 PM THIS EVENING.
AT 445 PM GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND 50 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED JUST
NORTH OF PAOLA KS.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.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, Jun 24, 4:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 435 PM CDT SAT JUN 24 1989 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS BEARING DOWN ON THE KANSAS CITY AREA... AT 425 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... CONTINUED OVER EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS AND EXTREME WESTERN MISSOURI. THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED INSIDE OF A 30 MILE WIDE AREA... EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OTTAWA KANSAS...TO NEAR ST JOSEPH MISSOURI. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PUSH THROUGH THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA TILL AROUND 8 PM. BREIF VERY HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING ...AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS. THUNDERSTORMS...WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO OVER ATCHISON COUNTY IN THE NORTHWEST TIP OF MISSOURI. MOVEMENT OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. EDF
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 5:51 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 545 PM CDT SAT JUN 24 1989 AT 545 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER MIAMI COUNTY KANSAS... NEAR PAOLA. AT 530 PM..MIAMI COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZE GAIL AND WIND GUSTING TO 50 MILES AN HOUR JUST NORTH OF PAOLA. THE STORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST...TOWARD LOUISBURG KANSAS. ALONG WITH THE GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL...SOME LOCAL FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM DUE TO ITS SLOW MOVEMENT AND INTENSITY.
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.