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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 15, 1990Cooper County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1990, 12:36 PM CDT for Cooper County, Missouri. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 1990, 12:36 PM CDT (17:36 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1990, 1:45 PM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Cooper 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 233 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 1990-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1151 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1990-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 258 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1151 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
613 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
258 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
323 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.2

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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
May 14, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSt. Clair31 min
May 15, 6:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson30 min
May 15, 10:18 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXCole, Moniteau, Morgan2 hr
May 15, 11:07 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXClay, Jackson3 hr
May 15, 11:07 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXPlatte3 hr
May 15, 12:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHickory69 min
May 15, 12:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCooper, Howard62 min
May 15, 1:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXCooper, Howard, Saline3 hr
May 15, 1:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXPettis3 hr
May 15, 1:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBoone, Moniteau33 min
May 15, 1:58 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXCallaway32 min
May 15, 2:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXBoone, Moniteau3 hr
May 15, 2:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXAudrain, Callaway3 hr
May 15, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXGasconade, Montgomery28 min
May 15, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXGasconade39 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.