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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Kansas City, MO

August 27, 1989Ray County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1989, 6:50 PM CDT for Ray County, Missouri. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 27, 1989, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 1989, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Ray 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 298 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1989-08-27Temperature 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1989-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 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
3627 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
46 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 11:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHarrison66 min
Aug 26, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMercer47 min
Aug 27, 12:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPutnam, Sullivan56 min
Aug 27, 2:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSaline63 min
Aug 27, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHolt55 min
Aug 27, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew, Buchanan65 min
Aug 27, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay, Jackson53 min
Aug 27, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClinton, DeKalb50 min
Aug 27, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCole65 min
Aug 26, 11:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLeavenworth59 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.