Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 1989, 8:45 PM CDT for Boone County, Callaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 1989, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1989, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Boone County, MO, Callaway 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 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 268 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
- 124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 963 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCOU 130145
TORCOU
MOC019-027-130215-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
845 PM CDT MON JUN 12 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF MISSOURI
EASTERN BOONE...CITY OF COLUMBIA...WESTERN CALLAWAY
AT 835 PM CDT A SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD
ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH-NORTHEAST OF COLUMBIA. RADAR SHOWED
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY SHOWERS AND POSSIBLY HAIL IN A
NARROW BAND FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA TO ABOUT 15 MILES
NORTHEAST OF COLUMBIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...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.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...FIND SHELTER
IN THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. ABANDON CARS
AND MOBILE HOMES FOR SAFE SHELTER. AS A LAST RESORT...TAKE SHELTmER
IN A CULVERT...DITCH...OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
LB/GVWhat 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, Jun 12, 6:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 635 PM CDT MON JUN 12 1989 AT 630 PM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH HAIL... STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN...EXTENDED FROM WESTCENTRAL TO NORTHEAST MISSOURI. ONE HALF INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED IN WESTERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY...ABOUT 25 MILES EAST OF KANSAS CITY AT 625 PM. OTHER STORNG STORMS WERE SCATTERED TO THE SOUTH OF KIRKSVILLE IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI. STORMS WERE MOVING EAST...SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
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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.