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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 5, 1990Chariton County, Saline County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1990, 12:56 PM CDT for Chariton County, Saline County, Missouri. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1990, 12:56 PM CDT (17:56 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1990, 1:45 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Chariton County, MO, Saline County, MO

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 5, 1:10 PM CDTHail 0.75Saline, MO

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 223 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1990-06-05Temperature 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1990-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 267 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1573 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
267 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
376 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCOU 051756
SVRCOU
MOC041-195-051845-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
1256 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF MISSOURI
      CHARITON...

   IN THE CENTRAL PART OF MISSOURI
      NORTHERN SALINE...

AT 1250 PM...AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO NORTH
AND WEST PARTS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF SEDALIA
...NEAR MARSHALL...TO 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KIRKSVILLE...NEAR
SUMNER.  THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL
MOVE THROUGH THE COMMUNITITES OF SLATER...BRUNSWICK...LACLEDE...
BROOKFIELD AND MARCELINE BY 130PM.

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

 LARM

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, Jun 5, 11:41 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO
1140 AM CDT TUE JUN 5 1990

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME NORTHWEST
MISSOURI UNTIL 12 NOON...

AT 1130 AM...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS NEAR CAMERON
MISSOURI.  THIS STORM PRODUCED SMALL HAIL IN LATHROP...30 MILES TO
THE NORTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY...AT 1125 AM.  VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND
POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WAS PART OF SCATTERED AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
OVER EXTREME NORTHERN MISSOURI AND EXTREME SOUTHERN IOWA.

THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.