Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Kansas City, MO
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 1:10 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Saline, 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.
- 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
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.
LARMWhat 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
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.