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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 25, 1990Benton County, Pettis County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1990, 6:53 PM CDT for Benton County, Pettis County, Missouri. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 1990, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1990, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Benton County, MO, Pettis 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 185 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 1990-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 719 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 1990-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 407 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
719 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-461 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
950 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
407 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
458 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCOU 252355
SVRCOU
MOC015-159-260630-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING  ...CORRECTION FOR TIME...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
653 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES

   IN THE CENTRAL PART OF MISSOURI
      NORTHERN BENTON...SOUTHERN PETTIS

AT 640PM GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR AND IN THE CITY
OF WARRENSBURG.  A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED 12 MILES NORTH OF THE
CITY OF SEDALIA AT 6:38PM.

DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY
RAIN ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.  STAY INSIDE AND...
AWAY FROM WIN9DOWS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS.

 PERLOW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson44 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.