Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1990, 6:30 AM CDT for Jackson County, Missouri. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1990, 6:30 AM CDT (11:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1990, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 806 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 863 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMCI 151132
SVRMCI
MOC095-151200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
630 AM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI
...EASTERN JACKSON
AT 625 AM THE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED GOLF BALL
SIZED HAIL AT THE BLUE RIDGE MALL. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING
EAST-NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.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, May 15, 12:40 AM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before
MOZ004-008-150535- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 1235 AM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 300 AM CDT... FROM 1215 AM TO 1220 AM...THERE WERE NUMEROUS REPORTS OF PEA SIZE HAIL THROUGHOUT JOHNSON COUNTY. VERY HEAVY RAIN...CAUSING ZERO VISIBILITY...WAS REPORTED IN SHAWNEE MISSION PARKWAY. WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WERE REPORTED AT SHAWNEE IN JOHNSON COUNTY AND TONGANOXIE IN LEAVENWORTH COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING THRU EASTERN WYANDOTTE AND SOUTHERN CLAY COUNTIES AS WELL AS DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY. THESE STORMS AREA PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...\CONTINUOUS LIGHTNING... AND SMALL HAIL. HEAVY RAINS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS. HAVEL
Special weather statement, May 15, 12:43 AM CDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before
MOZ004-008-150645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 1230 AM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 300 AM CDT... AT 11225PM...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MISSOSURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE HEAVY STORMS WERE ACROSS THE SOUTH PART OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA AND 20 MILES NORTH OF MANHATTAN KANSAS. THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. FLOODING IS POSSIBLE IN THOSE AREAS THAT ARE PRONE TO FLOOD IN JOHNSON COUNTY COUNTY KANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE eNORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
Special weather statement, May 15, 1:44 AM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before
MOZ004-008-150645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 130 AM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 300 AM CDT... AT 125 AM...ISOLATED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS PARTS OF THE WEST HALF OF MISSOURI AND PARTS OF EAST KANSAS. THE HEAVY STORMS WITH POSSIBLE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE FLOODING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS...WERE 40 MILES SOUTHWEST AND 25 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA KANSAS AND 30 MILES EAST OF KANSAS CITY. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
Special weather statement, May 15, 2:42 AM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
MOZ004-008-150835- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 240 AM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS THE KANSAS CITY AND ST JOSEPH METROPOLITAN AREAS THRU 500 AM BUT ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 232 WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 300 AM. SOME AREAS MAY STILL RECEIVE HEAVY RAINS IN THE STRONGER STORMS. PEOPLE SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | St. Clair | 31 min |
| May 15, 10:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cole, Moniteau, Morgan | 2 hr |
| May 15, 11:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson | 3 hr |
| May 15, 11:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Platte | 3 hr |
| May 15, 12:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 69 min |
| May 15, 12:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Hickory | 69 min |
| May 15, 12:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 62 min |
| May 15, 1:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Saline | 3 hr |
| May 15, 1:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Pettis | 3 hr |
| May 15, 1:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone, Moniteau | 33 min |
| May 15, 1:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Callaway | 32 min |
| May 15, 2:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Boone, Moniteau | 3 hr |
| May 15, 2:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Audrain, Callaway | 3 hr |
| May 15, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gasconade, Montgomery | 28 min |
| May 15, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gasconade | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.